Bubbaloo wrote:deflix wrote:This cannot work
That's a pretty bold and definitive statement!
Apologies - does sound a bit strong headed I admit!
What I mean is that 'texture baking' technically is not possible with a view dependent renderer in the strictest sense without some kind of complex yet-to-be-designed (biased) process. I frequently encounter mis-understandings in the CG world such as this. As far as I know the late great Lightscape (since deliberately killed by autodesk) was the last true dynamic radiosity rendering solution available - designed by dr greenberg of cornell university - and the inventor (arguably) of computer graphics. This facilitated what has become known as 'texture-baking' which is a relatively crude way of deploying real-time in a 3d model, by creating textures for each surface as derived from the radiosity solution. The problems however were numerous, not least for example that the effects of light vary with your viewpoint in ways that are not covered by this approach.
If you are interested in real-time technology then may I suggest you look at what people are doing in the games industry, partculalry with regards to some of the most respected 3d engines out there presently, such as cryengine2, source, dunia and unreal3. Using bsp implementation, and numerous state-of-the-art bespoke appraches this technology is freely available tio experiment with in a non-commercial manner. Something I looked at back in 94 with the original quake engine.
You will find that given the nature of the beast - games engine technology is nothing short of staggering, with some of the finest minds in the computer world at the helm.
my advise would be to start here -
www.crymod.com
As a footnote I should add that with Maxwell this is a at odds with the core ethos of next limit which rightly in my view is about mirroring reality. Multilight for example (strangely viewed as an add-on), is simply incredible if you think about whats happening there, and is also real-time in a manner of speaking. The term here in the UK is 'horses for courses'!!
TOM - r.e. fryrender - whats the deal with that software - it seems (for various obvious reasons) that fry and maxwell probably started life togther and that those involved fell out or something! - am I on the right lines?
from the beginning you been nagging about this baking feature and you still keep going at it. But i think you need to try to understand that this will most likely never show up in Maxwell, atleast not within a normal human lifetime. Find yourself another solution and another tool that does the job.
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