[Bf-cycles] Cycles volume render status

[Thomas Dinges]

Hi Brecht,
thanks for the latest updates for Volume code. Works fine: 
http://archive.dingto.org/2013/blender/code/volume_new.jpg (quick test) :)

There are indeed a lot of open items, but I think for 2.70 we should 
focus on the essentials, as you said.

I think we definitely should do for 2.70:
* Clean up and improve code further.
* Fix Texture Coordinates for procedural textures.
* UI: Keep/Remove the Experimental versions of the volume integrators 
(Stuart, your opinion here, as you wrote them, can the two versions be 
unified for example?)

Nice to have for 2.70 but could also be done later:
* Emissive Volumes
* Camera Inside Volumes
* Performance, better Importance Sampling (take a look at the Arnold 
papers from 2012?)

Best regards,
Thomas

Am 08.12.2013 13:57, schrieb Brecht Van Lommel:
> Hi all,
>
> We're trying to get volume render in master for 2.70, probably as an
> experimental feature. I've moved the To Do list from Thomas' user page
> to here and tweaked it:
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.6/Source/Render/Cycles/Volume
>
> Still a bunch of work to be done but most of these items are not
> planned for 2.70, mainly we need to get it into a state where it's not
> causing any (performance) regressions for Cycles usage without volume
> rendering, and to avoid having to do major design changes to the code
> that is there and break compatibility.
>
> Brecht.
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