Comments on: Photon Mapping – Internal Renderer

By: NathanKP

NathanKP — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:52:41 +0000

I'm very impressed with the results. It looks like a high quality radiosity render, just without the huge mesh size. The Frankenstein model is especially good. The splashy light and patterned shadows are very nice.

I can't wait until this is incorporated in the Blender release.

NathanKP – Made With Blender

By: Jonmike

Jonmike — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:35:31 +0000

Well! The community have been waiting for such things!!! hey! Guys, you rock it, we all enjoy it! PROUD of you…

By: toontje

toontje — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:06:32 +0000

Brdf is most definitely a plus. I hope it will be node based and measured brdf's based. I've seen an image of some wooden soldiers with measured brdf's material. Needless to say with plain old scanline rendering it looks photorealistic.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:45:53 +0000

That looks great, hopefully they incorporate FG caching and interpolation.

Toon Scheur : I wouldnt like to say they are disorganised as they are now, not knowing how they are planning
things but I totally agree about how open source development being prone to wasted/duplicated effort. Atleast they're pooling efforts now

By: Aka

Aka — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:40:13 +0000

@Toon Scheur – currently there is a talk on mail list about BRDF materials implementation, next to old shader system. So time will well. But I'm on it if it comes to new material types in Blender. That will work well with those "fancy" rendering techniques.

By: nowherebrain

nowherebrain — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:13:09 +0000

Or at least drink a bunch of coffee! yessss!

By: Toon Scheur

Toon Scheur — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:45:54 +0000

The power of Opensource is also a weak point. Sure Farsthary and Matt are working on it. That's the point. Initially they weren't aware of each others independent efforts on this topic. And now I've heard that Radiance from Luxrender is at the Blender institute and it not difficult to guess what they are talking about. This level of enthusiasm is commendable and even more with those gifted programmers working on it. But it looks a bit uncoordinated right now. These programmers should fall in line and draw a strategy. I bet those 3 can put something together that will really rock the world, if they just work together in synergy.

By: Sim Pern Chong

Sim Pern Chong — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:39:43 +0000

Wahaha ! Final true GI for Blender.. Yay

By: simo

simo — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:44:52 +0000

their = there ;)

By: simo

simo — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:40:52 +0000

in the initial render phase no rays of light are traced from camera's perspective. Only the light sources shoot photons to store the values in global and cautic photon map. Their are no rays which can be combined in the second phase…