Replace OIDN denoiser in Lightmapper with a JNLM denoiser compute shader. by DarioSamo · Pull Request #81659 · godotengine/godot
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Original proposal: godotengine/godot-proposals#7640 Background "Nonlinearly Weighted First-order Regression for Denoising Monte Carlo Renderings" (https://benedikt-bitterli.me/nfor/nfor.pdf) mentio...

TL;DR:

Before:

An image showcasing the old de-noiser

After:

An image showcasing the new de-noiser

These images are 2 weeks old and there have been some changes to it, as well as a slider to adjust de-noising. Notice how much more pronounced the ambient occlusion is, and how much better the overall shading is. It’s also faster than the older implementation.

On the scene I used for testing this out, the overall rendering time went down from 3 minutes to just over 1 minute in an RTX 3090 Ti with an 8K lightmap.

Bonus: This PR shaves off a massive chunk of the codebase (about 10% apparently.) Expect faster build times and a smaller engine size in 4.2!

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    • popcar2OP
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      1 year ago

      There’s been a lot of testing before this got merged, and it got merged to master which isn’t stable yet. Next month will be beta builds before 4.2 releases early november, so they’ll test many of the newer features and tune it accordingly.

      • onlinepersonaEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        As in automated testing. I don’t see CI run nor any code hinting at automated testing.