Enabling Global Illumination (GI VCT) for sensors in SDF #2550

athenaz2 · 2024-08-27T17:30:23Z

🎉 New feature

Summary

Global illumination (GI) has been enabled for the GUI with #1597, but not for the camera sensor view. This PR allows for GI to be enabled for sensors in the SDF as a <global_illumination> element within the sensor_system plugin. Currently supports the VCT technique, in the future can consider adding support for CI VCT.

Sensor view (left) and GUI (right) without GI VCT:

With GI VCT:

Test it

gi_for_sensors_demo.zip

Modify the <global_illumination> element in the SDF. This element is within the sensor_system plugin. The format is as follows:

<global_illumination type="vct">
    <enabled>true</enabled>
    <resolution>16 16 16</resolution>
    <octant_count>1 1 1</octant_count>
    <bounce_count>6</bounce_count>
    <high_quality>true</high_quality>
    <anisotropic>true</anisotropic>
    <thin_wall_counter>1.0</thin_wall_counter>
    <conserve_memory>true</conserve_memory>
    <debug_vis_mode>none</debug_vis_mode>
</global_illumination>

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Added example and/or tutorial
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iche033

this generally looks good, added some suggestions

iche033 · 2024-08-27T20:22:14Z

src/systems/sensors/Sensors.cc

@@ -521,6 +628,52 @@ Sensors::~Sensors()
 this->dataPtr->Stop();
 }

+//TODO: why does math::Vector3d work but not math::Vector3i?


looks like math::Vector3i is not one of the supported types: https:/gazebosim/sdformat/blob/ba1bf8fedc0b6063d4312ad312e515e28f71cfb9/include/sdf/Param.hh#L529-L537

iche033 · 2024-08-27T20:30:51Z

src/systems/sensors/Sensors.cc

+ std::string giType = giElem->GetAttribute("type")->GetAsString();
+ if (giType == "vct")
+ {
+ this->dataPtr->giVctParameters.enabled = giElem->Get<bool>("enabled", this->dataPtr->giVctParameters.enabled).first;


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Checked style with codecheck in f82c68e

src/systems/sensors/Sensors.cc

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… clean with codecheck Signed-off-by: Athena Z <[email protected]>

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iche033 · 2024-08-30T01:20:15Z

looks like there's an issue with GI on metal. Output from homebrew CI build:

281: [ RUN      ] CameraSensorGlobalIlluminationTest.GlobalIlluminationEnabled
281: libc++abi: terminating with uncaught exception of type Ogre::FileNotFoundException: OGRE EXCEPTION(6:FileNotFoundException): Cannot locate resource CrossPlatformSettings_piece_all.metal in resource group General or any other group. in ResourceGroupManager::openResource at /tmp/ogre2.3-20230918-86352-14va4s/ogre-next-2.3.1/OgreMain/src/OgreResourceGroupManager.cpp (line 793)

you can disable the test on mac using this macro. Can you ticket an issue on this in gz-rendering?

…S :( Signed-off-by: Athena Z <[email protected]>

athenaz2 · 2024-08-30T18:31:05Z

looks like there's an issue with GI on metal. Output from homebrew CI build:

281: [ RUN      ] CameraSensorGlobalIlluminationTest.GlobalIlluminationEnabled
281: libc++abi: terminating with uncaught exception of type Ogre::FileNotFoundException: OGRE EXCEPTION(6:FileNotFoundException): Cannot locate resource CrossPlatformSettings_piece_all.metal in resource group General or any other group. in ResourceGroupManager::openResource at /tmp/ogre2.3-20230918-86352-14va4s/ogre-next-2.3.1/OgreMain/src/OgreResourceGroupManager.cpp (line 793)

you can disable the test on mac using this macro. Can you ticket an issue on this in gz-rendering?

Okay, created an issue - gazebosim/gz-rendering#1048. I also noted it in the issue description but the GI unit test also skips testing for Apple platform.

azeey · 2024-08-30T21:44:43Z

The test is still segfaulting. I'm wondering if it's an issue with having two rendering tests in the same file. Can you try commenting out the "GiNotEnabled" version to see if just running the test with GI enabled still segfaults?

Signed-off-by: Athena Z <[email protected]>

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test/worlds/camera_sensor_gi_enabled_true.sdf

iche033 · 2024-09-06T21:54:24Z

test/worlds/camera_sensor_gi_enabled_true.sdf

+ <!-- <plugin
+ filename="gz-sim-scene-broadcaster-system"
+ name="gz::sim::systems::SceneBroadcaster">
+ </plugin> -->


remove if not used.

iche033 · 2024-09-06T21:55:14Z

test/worlds/camera_sensor_gi_enabled_true.sdf

+ <property key="showTitleBar" type="bool">false</property>
+ </gz-gui>
+ </plugin>
+ </gui>


I think you can remove the whole <gui> block because we don't need it for the test right?

same for the camera_sensor_gi_enabled_false.sdf test world

Whoops, was from creating SDF scene and ensuring cam lines up for test case. 95530a6

test/integration/camera_sensor_global_illumination.cc

iche033 · 2024-09-06T23:15:27Z

tutorials/global_illumination.md

+#### Example usage with VCT
+
+We will demonstrate how to enable VCT for the sensor with the SDF file below. (The finished SDF file can be viewed [here](
+https:/gazebosim/gz-sim/blob/main/examples/worlds/global_illumination.sdf).)


change link to point to the gz-sim8 branch

iche033 · 2024-09-06T23:15:34Z

tutorials/global_illumination.md

+#### Example usage for CI VCT
+
+1) Open the [global_illumination.sdf](
+https:/gazebosim/gz-sim/blob/main/examples/worlds/global_illumination.sdf) world using Vulkan with


change link to point to the gz-sim8 branch

tutorials/global_illumination.md

iche033 · 2024-09-06T23:25:40Z

tutorials/global_illumination.md

+#### Example usage for VCT
+
+1) Open the [global_illumination.sdf](
+https:/gazebosim/gz-sim/blob/main/examples/worlds/global_illumination.sdf) world with


update link to point to gz-sim8 branch

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iche033 · 2024-09-09T20:18:11Z

I made a couple of minor changes in f03476b (removed white space), and 966f48c (hide gui plugins). This now looks good to me.

azeey · 2024-09-11T17:31:18Z

This shouldn't have been merged since we are in code freeze. Let's make sure we don't forward port this to gz-sim9. Ideally, we won't need to forward port in the next few weeks, but if we do, we should just cherry-pick any necessary changes.

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Hack to enable GI for sensors

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Supporting global illumination for macOS/metal gazebosim/gz-rendering#1048

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Comment out GINotEnabled test to check segfault issue

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