Improve layering in the solari BRDF#24243
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Btw would love to know the code you used for the white furnace test for solari - I lost mine. |
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Thanks for the review! I think I've addressed everything, with the only logic change being the mirror pdf handling. |
| if material.roughness <= MIRROR_ROUGHNESS_THRESHOLD { | ||
| return EvaluateAndSampleBrdfResult( | ||
| wi, | ||
| rho.specular / specular_weight, |
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I don't think rho.specular / specular_weight is right here. You need to evaluate the BRDF.
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It should be the same thing, as the total reflected energy for a mirror is the same as the brdf evaluated for the reflected ray.
Doing a brdf evaluation does feel more readable though, and the lut at 0 roughness probably isn't that great.
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One last potential issues (not sure which it should be, my brain is a little fried).
Also, we have a couple usages of F_AB, which samples a texture. Can we hoist that out now?
| if material.roughness <= MIRROR_ROUGHNESS_THRESHOLD { | ||
| return EvaluateAndSampleBrdfResult( | ||
| wi, | ||
| evaluate_specular_brdf(wo, wi, world_normal, material) / specular_weight, |
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Are we sure that we should be using evaluate_specular_brdf and not evaluate_brdf here?
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Old code evaluated the full BRDF, but not sure if that was right.
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That's what I tested first, and the white furnace has excess energy if we try and evaluate the full brdf here.
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Weird. I don't understand why that is!
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Does it still break if this thresholding is removed?
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Objective
Improve the solari BRDF. Split off from #23818.
Solution
The layering approach used in the current brdf to distribute energy between the specular and diffuse lobes doesn't work, for reasons I honestly don't quite understand.
The suggested changes are roughly inspired by OpenPBR's equation 42. We're not using EON though, so this uses Filament's multiscattering correction instead of equation 39.
This formulation has the downside of breaking reciprocity. As far as I can tell the path tracer is unidirectional, so this shouldn't cause issues.
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