[Bf-committers] qdune review

[Alfredo de Greef]

--- Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> - almost working: shadowbuffer rendering

What exactly do you mean by 'almost'?
Also, currently the same shading rate is used as for
the final render, but for some objects without
displacement, a much higher shadingrate could be
possible (shadingrate can be set per object),
significantly speeding up the shadowmap render.

> - to investigate: speed of the qdune system is below
> expectation  
> (slower than Blender internal in comparable shots).
> Maybe the biggest  
> gain is in more complex situations

Kind of a surprising statement really ;)
Considering the amount of work done behind the scenes
I think it is kind of logical it will be slower.
You cannot compare it to something like PRman or
3delight, QD is only less than 2 years old.
It certainly isn't very fast, even so, personally I
think it did reasonably well in most cases, as far as
rendertimes is concerned, I had expected it to be much
worse for a first version.
That I say this myself is saying something :)

> Brecht definitely is willing to work on further
> integration later.  
> But... would help if we could find a partner for him
> to check on the  
> integration work and maintenance.

Well, I already told Brecht that I of course am very
much willing to help him with further integration.
Unless you mean someone coming over to the Amsterdam
studio to help in person, in which case I cannot do
that for reasons I already told you about.

Alfredo

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