[Bf-funboard] Auto-subdivide

Alexander Ewering bf-funboard@blender.org
Wed, 26 Nov 2003 21:49:37 +0100 (CET)


On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, [iso-8859-1] William Reynish wrote:

> Yes that is a good idea! Other programs that use
> radiosity are able to analyse the lighting so that it
> subdivides the mesh not according to the line length,
> but according to where the light changes. This would
> be even better! There usually still is a slider for
> accuracy, meaning you could still turn the subdivision
> level up or down.

Sorry, but if you had ever used the Radiosity tool in Blender,
you would know that it does exactly that, and that it is not
applicable to Rendertime radiosity, because the changing geometry
would be visible in the animation.

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