[Bf-cycles] Shadow Pass including IBL + mesh Lights (VFX)

[Thomas Beck]

Hi Brecht,

I compiled 4 versions for my employees yesterday and what can I say: They
are amazed! We avoided glossy (glass & glossy shader) surfaces as they were
getting completely black in the pass but all in all we could see that it's
doable and it worked great so far...

I will continue the discussion on https://developer.blender.org/D524 to not
spam this mailing list, but as they were pushing me to thank you officially
for the fast reaction and patch I'll do this now: Thanks a lot Brecht, you
rock!

We can't wait for you to finish it ... see that's what you get when you
create a patch for us ;)

Many greetings,
Thomas & the team


2014-05-12 18:53 GMT+02:00 Thomas Beck <software at plasmasolutions.de>:

> Hi Brecht,
>
> I compiled 4 versions for my employees yesterday and what can I say: They
> are amazed! We avoided glossy (glass & glossy shader) surfaces as they were
> getting completely black in the pass but all in all we could see that it's
> doable and it worked great so far...
>
> I will continue the discussion on https://developer.blender.org/D524 to
> not spam this mailing list, but as they were pushing me to thank you
> officially for the fast reaction and patch I'll do this now: Thanks a lot
> Brecht, you rock!
>
> We can't wait for you to finish it ... see that's what you get when you
> create a patch for us ;)
>
> Many greetings,
> Thomas & the team
>
>
> 2014-05-12 10:54 GMT+02:00 Brecht Van Lommel <brechtvanlommel at pandora.be>:
>
> Avoid transparent surfaces mostly. Besides that, I think just see if it
>> works well enough for the type of scenes that you work with.
>> On May 11, 2014 7:07 PM, "Thomas Beck" <software at plasmasolutions.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Brecht, thanks very much for this first attempt ... I will compile it as
>>> soon as I come back home this evening - are there any things I should
>>> especially be aware of or that I should try to avoid?
>>>
>>>
>>> 2014-05-11 15:32 GMT+02:00 Brecht Van Lommel <brechtvanlommel at pandora.be
>>> >:
>>>
>>>> I attempted to improve the shadow pass now to take the light shaders
>>>> into account, which should make background lights actually useful in
>>>> the shadow pass. There's a patch here that you can test:
>>>> https://developer.blender.org/D524
>>>>
>>>> There's a number of tricky issues to solve there though. I'll see how
>>>> far I get with those, not sure if I will have time to solve them.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Brecht Van Lommel
>>>> <brechtvanlommel at pandora.be> wrote:
>>>> > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Thomas Beck
>>>> > <software at plasmasolutions.de> wrote:
>>>> >> As Thomas Dinges pointed out it's just a matter of deleting one
>>>> check in
>>>> >> kernel_emission.h to support mesh lights in the shadow pass (or is
>>>> there
>>>> >> more to do, Brecht?).
>>>> >
>>>> > It's actually more complicated than that, due to the way we reuse rays
>>>> > for BSDF sampling of lights. Removing the check will give results that
>>>> > will be slightly or very wrong depending on the scene setup.
>>>> >
>>>> > Brecht.
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