Reverts the default value of Environment.glow_hdr_threshold from 0.0
back to 1.0 to restore the expected glow appearance in existing projects.
The default was inadvertently changed from 1.0 to 0.0 in PR #110077,
which caused glow effects to render dramatically different across all
rendering methods (Forward+, Mobile, and GL Compatibility). This broke
backward compatibility with existing projects like the Kenney 3D
Platformer starter kit.
Changed files:
- scene/resources/environment.h
- servers/rendering/storage/environment_storage.h
- drivers/gles3/effects/glow.h
- drivers/gles3/rasterizer_scene_gles3.cpp
- doc/classes/Environment.xml
Setting the value back to 1.0 aligns with documented recommendations
and restores visual consistency.
Fixes#112469
Mobile devices are typically bandwidth bound which means we need to do as few texture samples as possible.
They typically use TBDR GPUs which means that all rendering takes place on special optimized tiles. As a side effect, reading back memory from tile to VRAM is really slow, especially on Mali devices.
This commit uses a technique where you do a small blur while downsampling, and then another small blur while upsampling to get really high quality glow. While this doesn't reduce the renderpass count very much, it does reduce the texture read bandwidth by almost 10 times. Overall glow was more texture-read bound than memory write, bound, so this was a huge win.
A side effect of this new technique is that we can gather the glow as we upsample instead of gathering the glow in the final tonemap pass. Doing so allows us to significantly reduce the cost of the tonemap pass as well.
Additionally, change the minimum `tonemap_white` parameter to `1.0`; users can increase `tonemap_exposure` for a similar effect to decreasing `tonemap_white` below `1.0`.
Co-authored-by: Hei <40064911+Lielay9@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Hugo Locurcio <hugo.locurcio@hugo.pro>
Technical implementation notes:
- Moved linearization step to before the outset matrix is applied and
changed polynomial contrast curve approximation.
- This does *not* implement Blender's chroma rotation to address hue shift.
This hue rotation was found to have a significant performance impact.
- Improved performance by combining the AgX outset matrix with the Rec 2020 matrix.
Co-authored-by: Allen Pestaluky <allenpestaluky@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Clay John <claynjohn@gmail.com>
As many open source projects have started doing it, we're removing the
current year from the copyright notice, so that we don't need to bump
it every year.
It seems like only the first year of publication is technically
relevant for copyright notices, and even that seems to be something
that many companies stopped listing altogether (in a version controlled
codebase, the commits are a much better source of date of publication
than a hardcoded copyright statement).
We also now list Godot Engine contributors first as we're collectively
the current maintainers of the project, and we clarify that the
"exclusive" copyright of the co-founders covers the timespan before
opensourcing (their further contributions are included as part of Godot
Engine contributors).
Also fixed "cf." Frenchism - it's meant as "refer to / see".
Values lower than 1.0 can be used to make the fog rendering not fully
obstruct the sky. This can be desired when using fog as a purely
atmospheric effect, without intending to use fog for open world fog
fading.
When set to 0.0, fog rendering behavior will be similar to Godot 3.x
where sky rendering was never affected by fog.
This allows light sources to be specified in physical light units in addition to the regular energy multiplier. In order to avoid loss of precision at high values, brightness values are premultiplied by an exposure normalization value.
In support of Physical Light Units this PR also renames CameraEffects to CameraAttributes.
- Increase the default non-volumetric fog density to 0.01 to make
adjustments more visible.
- Use a less saturated non-volumetric fog color by default
(a mix of the sky and horizon colors of the new default
ProceduralSkyMaterial).
- Set Volumetric Fog Gi Inject to 1.0 by default. Injecting GI results
in more realistic appearance of volumetric fog, at a very low
performance cost.
- Enable Read Sky Light to get proper outdoors lighting out of the box.
- Set bounce feedback to 0.5 by default to get a better quality result.
- Higher values may cause infinite feedback with bright surfaces.
- Increase the number of frames to converge to improve quality
at the cost of latency. Most scenes are fairly static after all.
- Use 75% Y scale by default as most scenes are not highly vertical.
- Reorder the Y scale enum to go from the lowest Y scale to the highest.
Also rename the "Disabled" setting to "100%" for clarity.
This improves rendering performance noticeably, especially when the
camera moves fast.
On a medium-sized test scene on a GTX 1080 in 2560×1440, going
from 6 to cascades saves 0.5 ms of frame time while looking visually
identical (as most of the scene fits within the 4 cascades).
This provides more flexibility between performance and quality
adjustments, especially when using SDFGI for small-scale levels
(which can be useful for procedurally generated scenes).
This property was intended to provide a way to have SSAO or VoxelGI
ambient occlusion with a color other than black. However, it was
dropped during the Vulkan renderer development due to the performance
overhead it caused when the feature wasn't used.
-Always use temporal reproject, it just loos way better than any other filter.
-By always using termporal reproject, the shadowmap reduction can be done away with, massively improving performance.
-Disadvantage of temporal reproject is update latency so..
-Made sure a gaussian filter runs in XY after fog, this allows to keep stability and lower latency.
Happy new year to the wonderful Godot community!
2020 has been a tough year for most of us personally, but a good year for
Godot development nonetheless with a huge amount of work done towards Godot
4.0 and great improvements backported to the long-lived 3.2 branch.
We've had close to 400 contributors to engine code this year, authoring near
7,000 commit! (And that's only for the `master` branch and for the engine code,
there's a lot more when counting docs, demos and other first-party repos.)
Here's to a great year 2021 for all Godot users 🎆
- Makes all boolean setters/getters consistent.
- Fixes bug where `glow_hdr_bleed_scale` was not used.
- Split CameraEffects to their own source file.
- Reorder all Environment method and properties declarations,
definitions and bindings to be consistent with each other
and with the order of property bindings.
- Bind missing enum values added with SDFGI.
- Remove unused SDFGI enhance_ssr boolean.
- Sync doc changes after SDFGI merge and other misc changes.
Which means that reduz' beloved style which we all became used to
will now be changed automatically to remove the first empty line.
This makes us lean closer to 1TBS (the one true brace style) instead
of hybridating it with some Allman-inspired spacing.
There's still the case of braces around single-statement blocks that
needs to be addressed (but clang-format can't help with that, but
clang-tidy may if we agree about it).
Part of #33027.
Using `clang-tidy`'s `modernize-use-default-member-init` check and
manual review of the changes, and some extra manual changes that
`clang-tidy` failed to do.
Also went manually through all of `core` to find occurrences that
`clang-tidy` couldn't handle, especially all initializations done
in a constructor without using initializer lists.
