We now have an option for evaluating the bent normals from SSAO.
This is used to improve specular AO.
Currently these bent normals are not used for diffuse lighting because
they're "flat" (face normals), which is too distracting.
The bent normal buffer is stored in the SSAO texture, in a separate
layer. This is the first post processing effect that uses 2D array
in order to limit our sampler usage.
This CL also changes how we handle SPECULAR_AO_BENT_NORMALS when
material bent normals are not available: we're now using the "Cones"
algorithm with the regular normal, instead of Lagarde's approximation.
* Stop using members as globals between methods
* Multi-thread shaders generation with JobSystem
* Pass JobSystem to MaterialBuilder::build()
* Fix MeshAssimp to use the new API
* Allow the Java API to pass a job system via Engine
* Update docs
* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Philip Rideout <philiprideout@gmail.com>
The user can now choose amongst 3 specular AO methods:
- None, specAO is off
- Simple, specAO is inferred from roughness and diffuse AO
- Bent normals, specAO is computed accurately from cone intersections
The last method is more expensive but produces the best results.
This change also fixes a few issues:
- Rename materialRefraction() and materialRefractionType() for
consistency
- Fixes user time in shaders
* Add support for bent normals
Bent normals can be enabled via the bentNormal property of a material.
When specular occlusion is enabled, bent normals improve the quality
of the computation.
* Save a couple of multiplications in bent specular AO
* Add micro-shadowing based on ambient occlusion
* Prevent crash when IBL is turned off
* Apply micro-shadows to baked AO only
* Remove debug code
* Add opacity control
* Fix opacity term
* Switch to micro-shadowing from Chan 2018
