[Bf-committers] Material Nodes: No normals in worldspace?

[pete larabell]

Hey guys,

I wrote the patch to add reflection mapping (and could easily extend
to other things like WS normals) to the material nodes.

The issue behind the patch's delay is more of a logical issue of what
parts of blender you want to expose to the node system.

I spoke with kaito about this for a while and he had a good idea how
we could do it without exposing render core internals.

If I get a little more time I will implement the way kaito and I discussed.

Cheers!
Pete

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:15 AM, michael williamson
<michaelw at cowtoolsmedia.co.uk> wrote:
> On 21/07/11 00:37, Tobias Oelgarte wrote:
>> in
>> this simple case. It could be much easier and powerful to have
>> worldspace normals and maybe even the view-vector in wordspace
>> coordinates. This would allow many new possibilities for reflection
>> mapping and other cool stuff. On top of that it would work smoothly
>> together with GLSL and shouldn't be so hard to implement. Maybe this can
>> convince one of the programming gods to implement this feature?
>
> It would be much easier!
>
> For reflection I've found the current system works fine, but if normals
> were changed to world space then view would have to as well....
>
> It'd be nice to get object origins and current shading points world
> coordinates available in the nodes too  so you could do "x distance"
> from "empty" for example...
>
> I know you can a bit of that in texture nodes... but would be nice in
> material nodes!
>
>
>
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