[Bf-committers] Re: Orange branch schedule

[Shaul Kedem]

Ton,

Seeing that you will be taking care of the renderer part, if you can
lay the grounds (or even better, get the stuff in) for the following
things we discussed in the past:
 - SSS
  - Multi layered rendering (so each will be able to be used without
affecting others)
  - OpenGL render (not preview)

 I know this is a big list, that's because I was keeping tabs over
"big" requests in the previous year or so, just wanted to note this
stuff now when it seems most appropriate,

Shaul

On 1/14/06, Stealth Apprentice <stealthapprentice at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Another option is to allow plugins on render passes.
> Then other renders can be plugged in as a pass - I'm
> personally hoping to be able to inject hardware
> accelerated render passes... Some passes OpenGL, some
> passes software rendered, some passes image processing
> etc.; preferably with a full compositing tree... :)
>
> --- Rui Campos <rcampos at fusemail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Ton
> >
> > This is probably too much to ask for, but since you
> > are getting your
> > hands on it anyway, might as well keep this in mind.
> >
> > Keep the Render infrastructure as much in a "Black
> > Box" as possible,
> > allowing for a wrapper to be done to any other
> > Render engine.
> > I say this because it would be really good to do
> > "Shader" preview and
> > direct renders using another render engine right
> > from inside Blender, it
> > would make Blender ahead of other packages.
> >
> > The main point would be to leave this open, allowing
> > for someone to just
> > build the integration of any other Render into
> > Blender and use it as if
> > it was the Internal Render. Just a higher level API
> > to the render that
> > would know which render to call and use this higher
> > level API in any
> > render related thing inside Blender.
> >
> > Also, making the Render as "close" as possible can
> > also allow for a
> > "just render" deamon to be created and bundled for
> > Renderfarms in the
> > future.
> >
> > Good luck on this, you have lots of work ahead of
> > you.
> >
> >
> > -- Rui --
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 17:15 +0100,
> > bf-committers-request at projects.blender.org wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:30:55 +0100
> > > From: Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org>
> > > Subject: [Bf-committers] Orange branch schedule
> > > To: bf-blender developers
> > <bf-committers at projects.blender.org>
> > > Message-ID:
> > <b35ac5720bc86d15e98b362fe9243c78 at blender.org>
> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII;
> > delsp=yes; format=flowed
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm going to move now to the 2nd phase of the
> > render coding project;
> > > which is a full refactor of the
> > source/blender/render/ module in
> > > Blender.
> > > Targets are;
> > >
> > > - kill all bad level calls and abuse of render
> > code in non-render
> > > modules
> > > - means: build a good api to control the entire
> > render process
> > > - separate the render process in a more
> > controllable pipeline, I will
> > > use ideas from the Reyes architecture for it
> > > - default render with "buckets" (tiles), and allow
> > threads to do each a
> > > full bucket (and more than 2 threads too)
> > > - prepare for smart bucketing of object/polygon
> > data as well (later)
> > > - enable layer render (separate in front/back
> > using blender layers or
> > > scenes)
> > > - enable pass render (per layer, output RGB
> > diffuse, RGB, Spec A, Z,
> > > AO, etc)
> > > - generalize current passes for halos and
> > transparent, so it can be
> > > used for more (hair)
> > > - use exr to store all tiles and passes in a
> > single file (but also
> > > prepare for multiple computers to render tiles
> > together)
> > > - enable motion blur by storing motion vectors in
> > vertices, so blur
> > > passes can be done in postproduction (or exported)
> > > - make a noodle editor for reading back the exr
> > 'layer-passes' and
> > > enable compositing
> > > - enable preview renders of any object/scene in
> > any situation (like
> > > within a border in 3d win)
> > > - enable preview renders that only re-render a
> > specific material
> > >
> > > Hrms... the list is scary! :)
> > >
> >
> >
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