Source/Render/Cycles/SourceLayout
Cycles Source Layout
Modules
Folders
The source code is organized into folders as follows:
| app/ | Standalone session and network rendering server applications. |
| blender/ | Python module and C++ extension to integrate with Blender. |
| blender/addon | Python scripts for the Blender addon. |
| bvh/ | Bounding volume hierarchy constructions for raytracing. |
| cmake/ | Build and release files. |
| device/ | Device abstraction. |
| device/cpu/ | CPU device. |
| device/cuda/ | CUDA device. |
| device/dummy/ | Dummy device. |
| device/hip/ | HIP device. |
| device/hiprt/ | HIP RT device. |
| device/metal/ | Metal device. |
| device/multi/ | |
| device/oneapi/ | oneAPI device. |
| device/optix/ | Optix device, based on CUDA. |
| doc/license/ | Licenses. |
| integrator/ | Host side code for path tracing integrator, invoking rendering kernels. |
| graph/ | Generic scene node graph. |
| kernel/ | Rendering kernel, that can run on the CPU or GPU. |
| kernel/closures/ | BSDF closures used by svm and osl shader backend. |
| kernel/device/ | Kernel code specific to CPU and GPU devices. |
| kernel/integrator/ | Path tracing integrator kernels. |
| kernel/svm/ | Shader virtual machine to execute shader graphs on the CPU and GPU. |
| kernel/osl/ | OSL render services and shading engine, only runs on the CPU. |
| kernel/osl/shaders/ | OSL shaders used in the shader graph. |
| scene/ | Render scene and its nodes. |
| session/ | Render session and associated data structures like drivers and render buffers |
| subd/ | Tesselation and subdivision surfaces. |
| test/ | Unit tests. |
| util/ | Utility code. |