[leveller] Re: And onward we go

  • From: Ray Gardener <rayg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: leveller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 23:23:24 -0700

ms mandi blais wrote: 

In a future version it would be great to have multiple light sources in the
raytracer:with individual control over the light's color and type. Maybe by
Leveller 9, volumetric atmospheric effects would be awesome in the final
rendering(even if it took 8 hours to render overnight.

Yeah, actually the renderinfo properties available to renderer plug-ins anticipates multiple light sources even though only one is currently defined. So the groundwork has already been laid.

I'm not a strong shader developer, but even now with the plug-in system anyone who is can dive in for that. The open source version would make some shaders faster, however, since they could bypass any APIs when accessing host-side data.

Ray

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