UE4 - Added -AllowCommandletRendering to allow running a commandlet to initialize an RHI
- Added some fixes for null pointer dereferences
[CL 2523559 by Rolando Caloca in Main branch]
Distance field scene updates are no longer tracked when the project setting r.GenerateMeshDistanceFields is disabled
[CL 2519945 by Daniel Wright in Main branch]
* Enable with 'r.DistanceFieldGI 1' on console
* Surfel GI is currently disabled as it doesn't interop yet
* A GBuffer atlas is created for Landscape from components that can affect indirect lighting based on the current view
* Shadowing from a directional light is computed by reusing shadowmaps and ray tracing distance fields
* Lighting is computed for the atlas using GBuffer properties
* First bounce GI light transfer is computed for a receiver by iterating over all the nearby lit texels of the heightfield and treating them as Virtual Point Lights. Two gather regions are used, the larger one skips through the heightfield to achieve a larger bounce distance. Distance field AO is used to provide local shadowing.
* Material diffuse color not yet supported, and regions outside of the view don't have valid shadowing.
[CL 2436606 by Daniel Wright in Main branch]
* Disabled by default, need a movable skylight with r.DistanceFieldGI enabled at load time (ConsoleVariables.ini)
* Surfels (oriented disks) are placed on mesh surfaces and capture diffuse color by evaluating the material with actual UVs and world position
* Surfels are lit and shadowed by ray tracing through mesh distance fields (directional light only so far)
* Irradiance cache records are lit with nearby Virtual Point Lights created from lit surfels. Only using camera based LOD of the surfel representation and object based surfel culling, no hierarchy yet.
* Shadowing of the VPLs is provided by distance field cone tracing. A depth visibility function is constructed along each of the 9 cone trace directions, and used to shadow the incoming VPL lighting.
* Component reregistration and transform updating causes surfels to be generated again which can be slow. In the future only the material needs to be re-evaluated.
* Geometry shaders with stream out are now supported, by implementing FShader::GetStreamOutElements
* Compute shaders can now evaluate materal attributes like BaseColor
* SkyLight MaxOcclusionDistance increased to 10m, which is the minimum useful amount for GI
[CL 2424208 by Daniel Wright in Main branch]
* Requires a Movable Skylight + 'r.DistanceFieldGI 1' + 'r.GenerateMeshDistanceFields' project setting enabled
* Provides a single bounce of Diffuse GI with bounce distance limited by OcclusionMaxDistance (default 6m)
* Virtual Point Lights are placed from the directional light by ray tracing the scene's distance fields, normal comes from SDF gradient
* Currently only placing 128*128 VPLs up to 40m from camera
* VPLs light irradiance cache samples using hemispherical disk light model, indirect shadowing is provided by the same cone traces used for Distance Field AO
* Irradiance is computed only at irradiance cache points (max every 8 pixels) and interpolated to the rest of the pixels
* Hardcoded half grey material color for now, and poor performance due to brute force VPL lighting
[CL 2390645 by Daniel Wright in Main branch]
