Photonmaping black dots on 2.65 ubuntu x64

[Arquitecto]

Hi,

I am glad that website is back again.
I noticed that 2.65 exporter on ubuntu x64 produces lots of black dots with bg portals and ibl lighting.
You can test this scene, but any scene with ibl and portals will produce same black dots even with difuse grey material.
It's interesting that 2.63 exporter didn't produced that bug.
Don't know about 2.64 because I changed directly to 2.65.

Here is the test scene with difusemat and portal. Please add hdr.

TESTE.blend.zip

test scene

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Here the result of the scene on 2.65.

2.65

Here the nice result on 2.63 with textures

2.63

Here the same model tested with 2.65

2.65 dots

Hope this is easy to solve since bg portals give us beautifull photons!

[Samo]

post the scene please

[Arquitecto]

post the scene please

Did you read my post?
It's already there.

The only thing missing is hdr but all of my hdr show same result.
You can add any of yours.
More passes = more black dots

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[Samo]

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Did you read my post?
It's already there. :roll:

sorry

[stoneage]

I tested your scene and see no black dots.

EDIT:- Are these environment maps angular or spherical ?

[Arquitecto]

I tested your scene and see no black dots.

EDIT:- Are these environment maps angular or spherical ?

Sphere.
How can I help you detect the issue?

[povmaniac]

Anyone can check this scene with the 32-bit version of Ubuntu?
I think it may be a problem with Ubuntu x64 libraries..

http://www.graphicall.org/1027

Thanks...

[stoneage]

Sphere.
How can I help you detect the issue?

There is an issue with spherical maps. When mapped to sphere they produce no illumination. I also had some black dots when reworking a file for 2.65 that used sphere maps. Try angular maps instead.

[Arquitecto]

Sphere.
How can I help you detect the issue?

There is an issue with spherical maps. When mapped to sphere they produce no illumination. I also had some black dots when reworking a file for 2.65 that used sphere maps. Try angular maps instead.

Hi stoneage,

Confirmed.
The issue only affects sphere maps on blender 2.65.
Changing the hdr mappping to angmap eliminates the black dots even using the previous hdr. (But the bg will of course be wrongly mapped)
Is it any library on blender 2.65?

[povmaniac]

Is it any library on blender 2.65?

I meant a Ubuntu x64 library ..
Any 'black dots' using 'spherical' mapping in win32.

hdri_env_blend.png

Although I also believe that we should review the code of 'backgrounds settings'. There are some options that are not used for YafaRay and yet, missing some as 'rotation'.

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if( params.getParam("mapping", mapping) )
   {
      if(*mapping == "probe" || *mapping == "angular") pr = angular;
   }
   params.getParam("ibl", IBL);
   params.getParam("ibl_samples", IBL_sam);
   params.getParam("power", power);
   params.getParam("rotation", rot);
   params.getParam("with_caustic", caust);
   params.getParam("with_diffuse", diffuse);
   
   background_t *texBG = new textureBackground_t(tex, pr, power, rot);
   
   if(IBL)
   {
      paraMap_t bgp;
      bgp["type"] = std::string("bglight");
      bgp["samples"] = IBL_sam;
      bgp["shoot_caustics"] = caust;
      bgp["shoot_diffuse"] = diffuse;
      bgp["abs_intersect"] = (pr == angular);
      
      light_t *bglight = render.createLight("textureBackground_bgLight", bgp);
      
      bglight->setBackground(texBG);
      
      if(bglight) render.getScene()->addLight(bglight);
   }


[Arquitecto]

Hi povmaniac,

Thank you very much for your answer.

If it's a ubuntu x64 issue why with blender 2.63 sphere maps are perfectly working?

[David Bluecame]

I can see no problems with the latest versions. If it still happens to you, please provide an example of .blend and the hdr file as well so we can replicate it the same way you did.