Now that Far::LimitStencilTable and Far::PatchTable
support evaluation of 1st and 2nd derivatives the
Osd Evaluator API for evaluating stencils and patches
has been updated to match.
Implemented EvalPatchesVarying and EvalPatchesFaceVarying
methods for Osd::*Evaluator classes, i.e. cpu, omp, tbb,
GLXFB, GLSLCompute, OpenCL, and CUDA.
Also, the GPU Kernel implementations have been updated to use
the common patchBasis implementation instead of re-implementing
methods to compute patch basis weights locally.
This change restores the use of 4-bits in Far::PatchParam to
encode the refinement level of a patch. This restores one bit
that was stolen to allow for more general encoding of boundary
edge and transition edge masks. In order to accommodate all
of the bits that are required, the transition edge mask bits
are now stored along with the faceId bits.
Also, accessors are now exposed directly as members of Far::PatchParam
and the internal bitfield class is no longer directly exposed.
It looks like there's a compiler bug in some earlier nvidia driver 340/346 releases.
It has been fixed in 348.07 (win) as far as I can tell.
Following code behaves incorrectly.
void f(int a) {
for (int i=0; i<3; ++i) doSomething(a, i);
}
void g() {
for (int i=0; i<100; ++i) f(i);
}
The workaround is to use different identifiers for each function.
Add EvalStencils and EvalPatches API for most of CPU and GPU evaluators.
with this change, Eval API in the osd layer consists of following parts:
- Evaluators (Cpu, Omp, Tbb, Cuda, CL, GLXFB, GLCompute, D3D11Compute)
implements EvalStencils and EvalPatches(*). Both supports derivatives
(not fully implemented though)
- Interop vertex buffer classes (optional, same as before)
Note that these classes are not necessary to use Evaluators.
All evaluators have EvalStencils/Patches which take device-specific
buffer objects. For example, GLXFBEvaluator can take GLuint directly
for both stencil tables and input primvars. Although using these
interop classes makes it easy to integrate osd into relatively
simple applications.
- device-dependent StencilTable and PatchTable (optional)
These are also optional, but can be used simply a substitute of
Far::StencilTable and Far::PatchTable for osd evaluators.
- PatchArray, PatchCoord, PatchParam
They are tiny structs used for GPU based patch evaluation.
(*) TODO and known issues:
- CLEvaluator and D3D11Evaluator's EvalPatches() have not been implemented.
- GPU Gregory patch evaluation has not been implemented in EvalPatches().
- CudaEvaluator::EvalPatches() is very unstable.
- All patch evaluation kernels have not been well optimized.
- Currently GLXFB kernel doesn't support derivative evaluation.
There's a technical difficulty for the multi-stream output.
Changing all device kernels to take two buffer identifiers for
source and destination separately.
This change is an intermediate step toward upcoming context/controller
refactoring.
Previously we have a limitation that the source and destination
vertex buffer has to be a single buffer, since the subdivision
kernels are iteratively applied by level.
With stencil tables, we don't have such a limitation any more,
so we may want to apply stencils from seprate source buffer to
another.
To specifiy the output location within the destination buffer,
we can use VertexBufferDescriptor.offset. This allows us not only
configuring arbitrary batching scheme, but also relaxing the
limitation that source and destination buffers are in same
interleaved layout. For examples, we could include derivatives only
in the destination buffer, which doesn't need to be allocated in
the source buffer.
- remove #version declaration from the kernel code
- move it in front of shader sources before compiling to prevent some drivers from throwing errors
fixes#360
Sync'ing the 'dev' branch with the 'feature_3.0dev' branch at commit 68c6d11fc36761ae1a5e6cdc3457be16f2e9704a
The branch 'feature_3.0dev' is now locked and preserved for historical purposes.
All kernels take offset/length/stride to apply subdivision partially in each vertex elements.
Also the offset can be used for client-based VBO aggregation, without modifying index buffers.
This is useful for topology sharing, in conjunction with glDrawElementsBaseVertex etc.
However, gregory patch shader fetches vertex buffer via texture buffer, which index should also
be offsetted too. Although gl_BaseVertexARB extension should be able to do that job, it's a
relatively new extension. So we use OsdBaseVertex() call to mitigate the compatibility
issue as clients can provide it in their way at least for the time being.
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2 client APIs are changed.
- VertexBuffer::UpdateData() takes start vertex offset
- ComputeController::Refine() takes FarKernelBatchVector
Also, ComputeContext no longer holds farmesh.
Client can free farmesh after OsdComputeContext is created.
(but still need FarKernelBatchVector to apply subdivision kernels)
- [Feature Adaptive GPU Rendering of Catmull-Clark Surfaces](http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cloop/tog2012.pdf).
- New API architecture : we are planning to lock on to this new framework as the basis for backward compatibility, which we will enforce from Release 1.0 onward. Subsequent releases of OpenSubdiv should not break client code.
- DirectX 11 support
- and much more...
