feature poll

[OnoSendai]

Perhaps i could hack up some kind of fake SSS, which only scatters at the entry to and exit from transparent materials. Would this be useful, or do you think only true SSS will do?

[Kosmokrator]

i prefer real sss effects but for the moment its cool to have a fake one!

[manitwo]

if fake sss would be faster that would be wonderfull!(we could use this for example for leaves or something)
of course i won't miss real sss

manitwo: I dont know about turning off caustics, Indigo is all about acurate (unbiased) light simulation. That would introduce bias and defeat Indigo's purpose, IMHO.

Sometimes there are caustics wich don't makes the image better and even are not "seeable" (oh, i bet thats really bad english ) and produces nevertheless white dots/fireflies. In these cases that option would be very useful (you won't have to wait sooo long till the caustics clear up), imho.

[Maluminas]

Fake SSS could be an option if it could be faster than real SSS like manitwo said, but i would really like true SSS added sometime in the future, because i expect fake SSS to look somewhat fake lol

[IanC]

SSS would be fantastic, though shaders too, and those other things. Hehehe!

Perhaps i could hack up some kind of fake SSS, which only scatters at the entry to and exit from transparent materials. Would this be useful, or do you think only true SSS will do?

Wouldn't this be rough glass? That would be a great feature too!


Ian

[neepneep]

The more features the merrier.

[Zom-B]

I would love to see some SSS stuff in Indigo too!!!
If this "hack" you talk about Nic, is a easy job for you, go for it dude!

Perhaps this hack will stay a interesting feature even if SSS is out for Indigo someday!
But I think before putting more stuff into Indigo, bug-hunting is more important (kill em all ),
to get a clean and clear Indigo version first... this will make things for "Indigo Newcommers" much easier!

But the most important thing is, that you do the stuff you like to Nic
Doesn't matter what you code, I'm shure we'll be allways happy about it

[tungee]

s s s

[deathblood]

SSS

[mrmoose]

Alphamap would be great too!!!

[zuegs]

I dream of a image-mapping for most material parameters:
ex1:

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    <specular>0.100 0.100 0.100</specular>

or with map

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    <specular><map uv-set="uv" gain=1.0 exponent=1.5>spec_map.jpg</map></specular>

ex2:

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    <exponent>100</exponent>

or with map

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    <exponent><map uv-set="uv" gain=150 offset=50>exp_map.jpg</map></exponent>

[Zom-B]

Alphamap would be great too!!!

I think Alpha Maps are one of the most used features in 3D,
so it would enhance Indigo much more than a rather not very often used SSS

And don't forget guys, that nick just did some alpha Mapping stuff before :

[tungee]

what sss is not often used?
i dont think so!

almost every renderer has sss!
for example skin; without sss you forget it.

[geoadel]

SSS is also necessary for any kind of fabric - if I am not mistaken, the wonderful picture on the indigo-homepage leading to the forums for example could have greatly benefitted from SSS for backlighting the left curtain (if I recognized the sunlight-angle correctly).

[Zom-B]

Hey guys, I didn't sad that SSS isn't used often, I know its important part of a Render, and I love it too!!!

Its only that images with alpha chanel could be used in a bigger range of scenarios,
you also have to remember that without shaders the use of SSS is limited even more ...
But at the end, both SSS & Alphamapping are in developement,
so lets see what kind of cookies nick will give us in the future