[Bf-cycles] Possible faster (x2) Viewport Border rendering complex scenes

[David Black]

Wow that was quick!!  Thank you!

Your solution sounds fantastic, asked about wireframe not knowing you 
would be able to update just the render region. With your method I can 
imagine at least a 400% speed increase on the scene I tried.  Understand 
OpenGL will need to update the viewport when other changes are made.

Greatly looking forward to testing commit, will provide a GPU speed 
comparison.

Thank you for your replies (Light leaks plus this topic).

David
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On 14/04/2013 22:42, Brecht Van Lommel wrote:
> I've implemented this optimization and committed it to svn, the OpenGL
> object drawing is skipped now while the render is refining. I didn't
> benchmark it with GPU render yet, just tested on the CPU.
>
> It still redraws the OpenGL objects while you're editing material and
> render settings though, so it's probably not quite as fast as having
> no border render. But there's no way around that really, until we have
> a smarter system to detect which edited properties require a 3d view
> redraw and which don't.
>
> Brecht.
>
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Brecht Van Lommel
> <brechtvanlommel at pandora.be> wrote:
>> I'm not sure drawing with wireframes is the right solution, this can
>> still be slow. Probably it's possible to only redraw the area inside
>> the render border and leave the area outside unchanged, which would be
>> even faster. I'll look into it, we already do partial redraws for
>> sculpt mode so it should be possible.
>>
>> Brecht.
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:08 PM, David Black <db4tech at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Hi Brecht,
>>>
>>> Possible Faster Viewport Border Rendering Complex Scenes:
>>>
>>> Nothing to do with my previously mentioned half resolution option for faster
>>> Viewport rendering.
>>>
>>> There may be a way to speed up viewport border rendering for complex scenes.
>>> While preforming some tests, I noticed on complex scenes, where only a small
>>> area of the viewport is selected for border rendering, there is a huge
>>> render speed difference dependent on what is displayed in the rest of the
>>> viewport presently not being rendered.  Tested in camera view with 2 GTX
>>> 580’s and on a Laptop with a GTX580m.
>>>
>>> Test Method:
>>> Selected a small region  (top right) of the viewport for border rendering on
>>> a complex scene, moved the same region around different parts of the
>>> viewport and noticed a huge render speed up when complex areas of the scene
>>> not presently being rendered are moved outside of the viewport view.
>>>
>>> It seems solid OpenGL drawing the rest of a complex scene while border
>>> region is rendering is the culprit, could having the rest of the scene draw
>>> in wireframe mode only, instead of solid, outside of the border render
>>> region provide a faster viewport border render for everyone?
>>>
>>> Results:
>>> Border render small square top right of viewport complex scene:
>>> 2 GTX 580 16 seconds, GTX 580m 32 seconds
>>>
>>> Same border region moved to bottom left of viewport:
>>> 2 GTX 580 5 seconds, GTX 580m 14 seconds
>>>
>>> Thank you for your time,
>>> David
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