Exit portal tests

Post by **OnoSendai** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:27 am

lwan wrote:Heya,

it's cool to see some Fryrender technology implemented in another rendering engine.

A little credit both for the tech and the tutorial would have been nice though.

Erwan

Yes, well, it's not released yet, but yes, it is a great idea from the Fryrender guys, albeit based on ideas raised as far back as Veach's thesis in '97.

playmesumch00ns · Post by **playmesumch00ns** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:11 am

... and I think it was implemented in finalRender long before fryRender too

kadajawi · Post by **kadajawi** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:51 am

Wasn't finalRender a biased renderer?

CTZn · Post by **CTZn** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:36 pm

It is, but maybe the technique is usefull for GI too (using photons); that makes sense.

deltaepsylon · Post by **deltaepsylon** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:50 am

well... the portals should be user defined, cuz for some strange reason someone might not want to use 'em. And it shouldnt be too hard for exporter like blendigo to have exit portal-ization for objects. There could be a list of objects, you select the object and check the little 'exit portal' box. Dunno, just my 2 cents

Zom-B · Post by **Zom-B** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:49 am

deltaepsylon wrote:well... the portals should be user defined, cuz for some strange reason someone might not want to use 'em. And it shouldnt be too hard for exporter like blendigo to have exit portal-ization for objects. There could be a list of objects, you select the object and check the little 'exit portal' box. Dunno, just my 2 cents

just make it an new material that can be applied to a mesh, perhaps the easies way for the user, and even to code... +2 cents

CTZn · Post by **CTZn** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:02 am

Or:

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<portal>
    <mesh>
        usual mesh definition
    </mesh>
</portal>

Automatic detection of portals would be very tricky I guess, so yes keep'em user defined !

but you may be right ZmoB, as <mesh> has reference to a material it may be smarter; dunno.

Post by **OnoSendai** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:03 am

exit portals will be defined more or less like a mesh_light, for now

CTZn · Post by **CTZn** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:06 am

all right.

arneoog · Post by **arneoog** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:31 am

When you use meshlights (I asume that they work for them too)
will Indigo use the meshlight as a light AND an exit portal?

Post by **OnoSendai** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:35 am

arneoog wrote:When you use meshlights (I asume that they work for them too)
will Indigo use the meshlight as a light AND an exit portal?

no.

arneoog · Post by **arneoog** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:43 am

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