[Bf-committers] Envmaps

[Alexander Ewering]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Nathan Vegdahl wrote:

>   It would be useful for the first rendered env maps to be lower res' (because
> they appear smaller in the final render), and then to increase the res' for
> each recursion.  Obviously, this should be an optional (and tweakable) feature,
> since it could be a pain in some cases.  But in many cases, it would simply
> speed up the rendering process.

Hey,

that's actually a very useful idea. You could make a definable
"Resolution falloff factor". If it is 3, and you have selected 2
recursions, the first envmaps will be rendered at 1/9 resolution,
the second at 1/3...

Will look into that:).

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