User:Jbakker/reports/2021

Week 202137

Code Review

  • Allow World assets to be drag/dropped onto viewport [D12566]
  • UI: Blender 101: Mouse Hover Highlight [D12549]
  • Compositor: Canvas Compositing [D12466]

Asset Browser

  • AssetBrowser: Localize external files. [D12423]
  • AssetBrowser: Performance file browser [D12449]
  • Blender Libraries: Add JSON Library. [D12567]

Week 202136

Code Review

  • Hair Info Length Attribute [D10481]
  • GHOST: Unify behavior of offscreen context creation [D12455]

Asset Browser

  • AssetBrowser: Localize external files. [D12423]
  • AssetBrowser: Performance file browser [D12449]
  • Compositor: Canvas Compositing [D12466]

Week 202135

Blender LTS

  • Backported patches to 2.83.18
  • Backported patches to 2.93.5

Code Review

  • Hair Info Length Attribute [D10481]
  • Fix Drivers Editor showing frame scrubbing [D12391]
  • Fix Drivers Editor not hiding vertical part of cursor [D12391]
  • Compositor: Add OIDN prefiltering option to Denoise node [D12342]

Eevee/Viewport

  • Fix crash drawing hair with older GPUs. [861b7071a24b]
  • Performance texture painting with limited scale. [T90825]

Asset Browser

  • Asset Browser: Localize external images. [D12417]

Week 202134

Meetings

  • Meeting with AMD about future projects.

Render Module

  • Tested Cycles-X AMD patch and reported some findings.
  • Check with Clement how to move some changes forward.
  • Performance texture painting.

Blender LTS

  • Backported patches to 2.83.18
  • Released 2.93.4

Code Review

  • Compositor: Full frame filter nodes [D12219]
  • Compositor: Merge equal operations [D12341]
  • Hair Info Length Attribute [D10481]

Week 202133

Blender LTS

  • Backported patches to 2.83.18
  • Backported patches to 2.93.4

Code Review

  • Fix T90651: camera reconstruction crash without scene camera [D12230]
  • Compositor: Full frame filter nodes [D12219]
  • UDIM: Show the UV grid even when images are loaded [D11860]
  • Make knife drawing anti aliased [D12287]
  • Compositor: Add more render tests [D12286]
  • Fix T90772: Image Editor not sampling color from the the currently selected pass [D12267]
  • Compositor: Full frame vector nodes [D12233]
  • Cleanup: Move 'tris_per_mat' member out of 'MeshBufferCache' [D12227]
  • Cleanup: rearrange the 'struct MeshBufferCache' [D12223]
  • Compositor: New Posterize Node [D12304]

Module work

  • Added testcases to narrow down issues in D12052. [D12302]
  • Draw Manager: Add callback for color management and populate loop. [D12332]

Blender 101

  • Prototyped and stressed Blender 101 to create a minimal blender version and find limitations

Asset Browser

  • Improve thumbnail loading from blend files. [T90908]

Week 202132

Blender LTS

  • Backported patches to 2.83.18
  • Released 2.93.3

Code review

  • UDIM: Support tile sets that do not start at 1001 [D11859]
  • UDIM: Show the UV grid even when images are loaded [D11860]
  • Compositor: Full frame matte nodes [D12220]
  • Compositor: Full frame filter nodes [D12219]
  • Fix T89998: Cryptomatte node output values doubled with Multi-View [D12216]
  • Assets: Recursive reading of asset libraries [D12139]
  • DRW: Move buffer & temp textures & framebuffer management to DrawManager [D11966]

Week 202131

Blender LTS

  • Backported patches to 2.93.3
  • Released 2.83.17

Code Review

  • Cryptomatte always needs full float precision. This patch will allow for that even in 16bit sequences [D12070]
  • Compositor: Full frame Bokeh Blur and Blur nodes [D12167]
  • Compositor: Full frame distort nodes [D12166]
  • Compositor: Full frame transform nodes [D12165]
  • Compositor: Add sampling methods for full frame [D12164]
  • Compositor: Full frame input nodes [D12090]
  • Assets: Recursive reading of asset libraries [D12139]
  • Enable Asset Browser by default for poses, rest stays experimental [D12120]
  • UDIM: Fix tile number calculation when adding a range of image tiles [D11857]
  • UDIM: Support tile sets that do not start at 1001 [D11859]
  • Fix FTBFS on mips64el architecture [D12194]

Viewport

  • T73434: Improve Weight Paint Overlay Drawing. [D12170]
  • Fix issue in CyclesX GPUDisplay patch [D12039]

Performance

  • Poor performance in Timeline, Dope Sheet, etc when at the top of the editor. [T78995]
    • Reduced GPU context switches [5f6033e0919a]
    • Enable threading for building keylists. [D12198]
    • Use CPP binary search [D12052]
    • Use drawlist to draw keyframes [e53afad24149]


Asset Browser

  • Asset: Dropping Material assets on material slot under mouse cursor. [D12190]

Week 202130

Blender LTS

  • Backported patches to 2.83.17
  • Release 2.93.2

Code Review

  • Fix T87041: Driver Editor not updated in realtime [D12003]
  • Compositor: Full frame Mask node [D11751]
  • Compositor: Full frame convert nodes [D12095]
  • Compositor: Full frame curve nodes [D12093]
  • Compositor: Full frame color nodes [D12092]
  • Compositor: Full frame output nodes [D12091]
  • Cryptomatte always needs full float precision. [D12070]
  • Cycles X: Use GPUDisplay for non-interactive render [D12039]
  • Asset Browser: Proper context menu for assets [D12062]
  • Asset Browser: Don't show inapplicable filter and display settings [D12059]
  • Asset Browser: Adjust header pulldowns to be Asset Browser specific [D12057]
  • Enable Asset Browser by default for poses, rest stays experimental [D12120]

Asset Manager

  • WindowManager: Support Dynamic tooltips when dragging [D12104]
  • Asset: Drop Material Tooltip [D12106]
  • Link images when applying material assets [D12116]

Week 202129

Blender LTS

  • Merged fixes into 2.93.2
  • Merged fixes into 2.83.17

Code Review

  • Compositor: Full frame Scale node [D11944]
  • Compositor: Full frame Levels node [D11749]
  • Compositor: Full frame Box Mask node [D11627]
  • Fix T87041: Driver Editor not updated in realtime [D12003]
  • Cleanup: Rearrange files used for mesh extraction [D11991]
  • Compositor: Buffer iterators tests [D12001]
  • DRW: Move buffer & temp textures & framebuffer management to DrawManager [D11966]

Asset Browser

  • Assets: When dropping material use active material slot [D12056]

Week 202128

GPU Module

  • Checked on preliminary vulkan support of proposed PyGPU functions.

Code review

  • Draw: extract tris in parallel ranges [D11445]
  • Compositor: Full frame Ellipse Mask node [D11635]
  • Compositor: Full frame Viewer node [D11698]
  • Compositor: Export operation results as debug option [D11722]
  • Compositor: Full frame Levels node [D11749]
  • Compositor: Full frame Double Edge Mask node [D11750]
  • shot-builder: add frame_start and frame_end attribute to Shot and use that to set frame range of scene on building [D11777]
  • Compositor: Buffer iterators [D11882]
  • Compositor: Full frame Scale node [D11944]

Performance

  • Cleanup: Hide implementation details for ED_keyframe_keylist. [D11974]

Asset Browser

  • Improve Icon previews reflective materials. [D11988]

Week 202127

Unavailable due to personal time.

Week 202126

Code Review

  • Compositor: Constant folding [D11490]
  • Compositor: Full frame Ellipse Mask node [D11635]
  • Compositor: Full frame Bilateral Blur node [D11634]
  • Compositor: Full frame Pixelate node [D11801]
  • Bone Overlay: support bone wireframe opacity settings. [D11804]
  • VSE: Fix cache bar not visible [D11779]
  • Fix: Compositor wrapping pixels outside buffer area [D11784]
  • Compositor: Full frame Gamma node [D11767]
  • Compositor: Full frame Exposure node [D11766]
  • Compositor: Full frame Color Correction node [D11765]
  • Compositor: Full frame Color Balance node [D11764]
  • Compositor: Full frame Mask node [D11751]
  • Compositor: Full frame Double Edge Mask node [D11750]
  • Compositor: Full frame Levels node [D11749]
  • Compositor: Export operation results as debug option [D11722]
  • Compositor: Graphviz improvements [D11720]
  • Compositor: Full frame Viewer node [D11698]
  • Compositor: Full frame Mix node [D11686]
  • Compositor: Full frame Sun Beams node [D11694]
  • Compositor: Full frame Render Layers node [D11690]
  • Compositor: Full frame Brightness node [D11677]

Vulkan

Week 202125

GPU Module

  • Refactored shader compilation log parser.
  • Refactored draw test cases.
  • Proposal for push constants [T89553]

Bug Fixing

  • Viewport Render Preview glitching [T89405]

Blender LTS

  • Prepared 2.83.17
  • Prepared 2.93.2

Week 202124

Edit mesh performance

  • Selecting all vertices on a face doesn't select the face and selects only some edges [T89271]
  • Performance: Flush selection to edges/faces. [D11644]

Patch Review

  • Expose Color Management as argument for gpu.types.GPUOffScreen.draw_view3d() [D11645]
  • Compositor: Full frame Image node [D11559]
  • Compositor: Full frame ID Mask node [D11638]
  • Compositor: Full frame Ellipse Mask node [D11635]
  • Compositor: Full frame Bilateral Blur node [D11634]
  • Compositor: Full frame Box Mask node [D11627]
  • Compositor: Constant folding [D11490]

LTS

  • Blender 2.93.1 release

EEVEE/Viewport

  • Vulkan: Add GLSL SpirV compiler [T89364]

Week 202123

Sequencer Performance

  • VSE: Improve animation evaluation performance [D11544]
  • Fix: Sequencer backdrop not updated during playback. [462bd81399]

Edit mesh performance

  • DrawManager: Cache material offsets. [D11612]
  • DrawManager: Multithreaded counting of material buckets [D11615]
  • BMesh: use threading to count total selection. [D11622]
  • Performance: Flush selection to edges/faces. [D11644]
  • Performance: Limit recounting during selection mode flushing. [D11647]

Patch Review

  • Compositor: Full frame Value node [D11594]
  • Compositor: Full frame RGB node [D11593]
  • DRAW Cache: sanitize 'DRW_mesh_batch_cache_dirty_tag' [D11588]
  • Compositor: Full frame Image node[D11559]
  • Fix: Image node alpha socket converted to operations twice [D11566]

LTS

  • Blender 2.83.16 release
  • Prepared 2.93.1 release

Week 202122

Mesh Editing Performance

  • Multithreaded index builder [T88822]
  • Use threaded ibo.tris extraction for single material meshes [T88352]

Sequencer Performance

  • Research bottlenecks.
  • Sequencer: Performance image crop transform [2e19649bb91b]
  • Sequencer: Transform ImBuf Processor [D11549]
  • Performance: Use parallel range for ImBuf scanline processor [D11578]
  • Sequencer: Do not redraw during playback [D11580]

Code Review

  • Fix: Compositor test desintegrate failing on arm64 [D11546]
  • Compositor: Refactor recursive methods to iterative [D11515]
  • Fix T88598: Support disabling task isolation in task pool. [D11415]
  • Draw Cache: avoid recalculating 'poly_normals' [D11527]
  • Draw Manager: Use threading for Mesh extract lines [D11467]
  • Refactor: Draw Cache: use 'BLI_task_parallel_range' [D11558]

LTS

  • Prepared 2.93.1.
  • Prepared 2.83.16.

Week 202121

Code Review

  • Fix (unreported): TextureOperation inputs have no resolution [D11381]
  • GPUIndexBuf: Find the minimum and maximum index through the builder [D11455]
  • Draw Manager: Mesh Extract: Balance the execution time of threads [D11450]
  • Draw Manager: Extract tris in parallel ranges [D11445]

Bug Fixing

  • Cryptomatte: EXR sequence does not update when scrubbing the timeline [T88666]
  • Cryptomatte only works for the first View Layer [T88567]

Release

  • Blender 2.93.0 LTS

Mesh Editing Performance

  • Multithreaded index builder [T88822]

Week 202120

Code Review

  • Compositor: Full-frame base system [D11113]
  • Cleanup/Refactor: DRW: pass the 'MeshBufferCache' as a parameter instead of a GPU Buffer for the init and finish callbacks of the extracts [D11375]
  • Refactor: DRW Mesh Extractor: Join the extractors in a same loop [D11375]
  • Fix T88598: Support disabling task isolation in task pool [D11415]

Development

  • Explicit colors [D10978]
  • VSE shading mode ignores Grease Pencil Vertex colors. [T86956]

Edit mesh performance

  • Cleanup patch.

Week 202119

Code Review

  • Compositor: Full-frame base system [D11113]
  • Overlay: Flash on Mode Transfer overlay [D11055]
  • Cleanup: Refactor PlaneTrack and PlaneDistort operations [D11273]

Bug Fixing

  • Perfomance drop if Texture Limit Size enabled [T87133]

Edit mesh performance

  • Research areas to improve
    • Use threading for simple gpu buffer mesh extractions [T88350, T88351, T88352, T88353]
  • Experiments
    • DrawManager: Task counters atomics.[T88369]
    • Optimize extract_edit_data extraction. [T88450]
  • Development
    • DrawManager: Keep subset RenderMeshData around when geometry does not change. [D11339]

Development

  • Explicit colors [D10978]

Week 202118

Code Review

  • Compositor: Add vars and methods for easier image looping [D11015]
  • Exclude 'Render Result' and 'Viewer' images where not supported T73182 [D11179]
  • Compositor: force full float EXR for File Output node if Depth is connected [D11157]
  • Compositor: Full-frame base system [D11113]
  • 3D View: UV Checker Pattern Overlay [D11250]

Bug Fixing

  • Updated test cases cryptomatte.
  • [T87764] memory leak per frame during EEVEE viewport render animation with cryptomatte enabled.
  • [T88180] Eevee not working with AMD RX580

Performance

  • Researched edit mesh transform operations.
  • Create benchmark baseline. [D11255]

Week 202117

Development

  • DrawManager: Use Compute Shader to Update Hair. [D11057]
  • GPU: Mesh Drawing Performance [T87835]

Code Review

  • Replace COM_DEBUG #define with constexpr. Fixes T87035
  • Fix T84815 : Missing preview image in compositing file output node [D10995]
  • Compositor: add vars and methods for easier image looping [D11015]
  • Fix T87771: Immediate Crash on "Edit Source" in Compositor [D11084]
  • Fix Compositor: WorkScheduler task model deletes works [D11102]
  • Overlay: Flash on Mode Transfer overlay [D11055]

Week 202116

Development

  • Explicit colors [D10978]
  • DrawManager: Use Compute Shader to Update Hair. [D11057]

Code Review

  • Fix T87440 EEVEE: Specular Light Viewport Render Pass wrong behavior [D11028]
  • Fix T86037 EEVEE: SSR option changes render passes result [D11033]
  • macOS: Fix unknown -Wsuggest-override warning [D11012]

Bug Fixing

  • Fix T78845: Eevee wrong material selection [D11036]

GSoC

  • Reviewing proposals

Week 202115

Code Review

  • D10956: Convert vertex colors to linear color space
  • T74680: Incorrect mixing in Glare node
  • D10971: Fix compositor: opencl device queue deleted after creation
  • D10972: Fix (unreported) compositor resolution propagation broken by some nodes
  • D10609: Modifiers: Performance Simple Deformation

Bug Fixing

  • T87252: file output node broken with more than 4 inputs
  • T87292: "File Output" node does not saves anything
  • T77023: Using multiple Denoise Nodes.
  • T81809: Compositor sometimes fails to composite (Image Editor involved)

Week 202113

Code Review

  • Compositor: Add Anti-Aliasing node [D2411, D10778]

Cleanup

  • Compositor: Enable suggest-override warning [D10846]

Bug Fixing

  • Cryptomatte affected by Color Space change in OpenEXR multilayer [T68239]
  • Cryptomatte: Fix When Image based Cryptomatte Aren't On The First Render Layer

Library Override

  • Library Overrride API
    • [D10848]

Week 202112

Code Review

  • Compositor: Add Anti-Aliasing node [D2411]
  • Compositor automated testing [D6334]
  • PNG Banding [T86560]

Bug Fixing

  • Fix: Cryptomatte Metadata Trimmed to 1024 [D10825]

Library Overrides

  • API for restrictive mode

Week 202111

Render Module

  • Finalize Cryptomatte [D3959]
  • Fixed crash when loading malformed cryptomatte metadata.
  • User manual cryptomatte.
  • Release notes cryptomatte.

Code Review

  • Fix T86542: Crash going to UV editing workspace with an instancer that is hidden from the viewport [D10724]
  • Compositor: Add Anti-Aliasing node [D2411]
  • Compositor automated testing [D6334]

Week 202110

Bug Fixing

  • Cryptomatte Crash on Load [T86026]

Cleanup

  • Resource manager for cryptomatte sessions [D10667]

Code Review

  • Fix T86417: Crash deleting Shader AOV from an empty list [D10666]
  • LibOverride: Add a utils to check if override has been user-edited. [D10649]
  • Compositor: Silence -Wself-assign [D10653]
  • Compositor: silence clang/clang-tidy override warnings [D10654]

Manual

  • Library Overrides: Manual [D10642]

Blender 2.83

  • Released Blender 2.83.13.

Week 202109

Overrides

  • Technical Overview
  • Manual

Bug Fixing

  • Performance View 3d Viewport Crash [T86122]
  • Cryptomatte Crash on Load [T86026]

Cryptomatte

  • Construct Cryptomatte session from metadata.

Cleanup

  • Modernize Compositor code to CPP 17.

Week 202108

Cryptomatte

  • Windows build

Viewport

  • Review/Discussion about re-arranging eevee render passes/stages.
  • GPencil: Anti-aliasing quality
  • Fix T85939: Eevee Specular BSDF shader compile error

Blender 2.92 release

  • Making sure release can be done this week.

Week 202107

Override project

  • Moved Overrides functional design to [1]
  • Research overrides + USD compatibility [2]

Code Review

  • T85499: Crash on switching to edit mode with uv editor open
  • D10414: Workbench: Improve AntiAliasing sampling.

Cryptomatte

  • Code review comments.

Viewport Module

  • Fix T85650: Switch for Fresnel Effect Wires in Viewport [D10436]

Week 202106

Override project

  • Functional design

Bug fixing

  • Initial design how to tackle the double CM issues
  • T79999: Double color management applied during viewport animation render [D10371]
  • Fix T81206: Do not limit gl texture size in image editor

Code review

  • Fix T85499: Crash on switching to edit mode with uv editor open [D10369]
  • Fix issue with render_passes AOVs in viewport [D10375]
  • Fix T85499: Crash on switching to edit mode with uv editor open [D10369]
  • Fix T74680: Incorrect mixing in Glare node [D7138]

Cryptomatte

  • Load cryptomatte meta data from OpenEXR file.
  • Rebase master into cryptomatte branch.

Week 202105

Shotbuilder:

  • Production hooks are responsible for loading files.
  • Added hook filter on task types.
  • Save file after building
  • Add camera rig.
  • Started with override of props and characters
  • Link animation in lighting file.
  • Fix loading BBQ grill.
  • Fix loading pencil and notepad.

Overrides:

  • Tested overrides from UI perspective.
  • Checked at the basic code structure and listed the important function points. On friday will dive into these function points.

Code Review

  • D2411: Compositor: Anti-Aliasing node
  • Eevee: DoF refactoring

Week 202104

  • T83529: Horizontal stripe artifacts in image editor
  • Fix T84878: Eevee cryptomatte broken with stereoscopy
  • Fix T84398: Multiview images show only one view.
  • Buildbot: Fixed crash when building RC builds
  • Fix T84324: Crash when combining two scenes in compositor.
  • Fix T84438: Crashing when compositing 2 scenes
  • Fix T83198: Crash when switching to in-progress render slot (2.91)
  • Potential Fix T83022: Transparency in Solid View Causes Glitch Artifacts
  • Researched several CM issues [T77909].
  • Added new AMD Drivers to the HQ normals workaround.
  • Helped out Blender v2.83.12 release
  • Fix T83187: Unselected UVs show selected on linked meshes.
  • Fix to add 2.90.1 to opendata benchmark
  • Fix to add 2.91.? to opendata benchmark
  • Fix T81169: Grease Pencil Z-depth drawing issue on OSX + AMD Graphic Cards

Week 202103

Bug Fixing

Code review

  • Fix T84823: crash rendering with unconnected input socket in File Output node [D10137]
  • Fix T84784: Time Remapping not displaying in the timeline [D10134]

Shot builder

  • Loading assets
  • Adding hooks
  • Set render engine + settings
  • Added cleaner method to sync data from external systems.

Releases

  • Blender 2.91.2 release

Week 202102

  • Fixed wireframe draw issues AMD drivers
  • Fixed edit normal draw issues AMD drivers
  • Fix T64953: Add cryptomatte meta data to file output node.
    • Applied feedback from code review

Week 202101

Bug Fixing

  • DrawManager: High quality normals for non meshes [d11a87b88c]
  • GPU: Add HQ normals workaround [a3fcbb54f4]
  • GPU: Enable HQ normal work around for AMD Polaris [cb2517016b]
  • Fix: Update normals when switching scene quality [c716b9862a]
  • Regression : Eevee vextex color isn't working with hair [c6e5b3f42d]
  • Fix T84053: Mask overlay in image editor not working [T84053]
  • Compositor: Alpha Mode [D9630]
  • Fix T64953: Add cryptomatte meta data to file output node. [T64953]
    • Added example file and verified with users in external compositor
    • Optimized the patch. (Mostly passing remove passing of std::string)
  • Researched reason why wireframe rendering isn't working on specific platforms. [T84459]
    • Updated the platform detection of failing platforms

Patch Review

  • Fix T84160: Wrong DOF when camera is overriden [D9952]
  • Fix T84389: RGB Curves node shows "tone" option outside of compositor [D10005]
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