Edoardo Dominici

Sourcing Instancer primvars

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**Description** This patch forward primvars authored on a point instancer to a additional set of attributes which takes precedence over the geometry's attribute set and can be indexed by each...

Changes - Glue code for this [core patch](https://github.com/tangent-opensource/coreBlackbird/pull/72) - Changed the default point style to Sphere from Disc. This is consistent with the Houdini schema. - Disconnected alpha socket in...

Stretched preview before rendering new frame

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Resizing the houdini viewport typically causes the previous frame to be rendered stretched (nearest neighbor) before the new frame begins to be blit. The stretched image can be replaced by...

Houdini grid overlapping render output

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The world grid overlay in Houdini overlaps the rendering output. I would guess the depth buffer needs to accessible to Houdini to correctly compose the two images. There also seems...

Synchronization between Cycles scene and primitives

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Currently, each primitive locks the scene mutex during the `Sync` method to write new values, making primitive syncing pretty much sequential. I can think of two ways to optimize it:...

**Changes** - Early transparency test for point clouds. Transparency is now tested in the Embree filter function only for points with transparency. From a simple test included below, the total...

Instanced attribute sets

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**Description** This patch allows objects to read from and index shared attribute sets. The logic in the geometry manager has been changed to allocate an extra device attribute map for...