Re: [K3d-development] Lurker is back: SoC ideas

[Rene J. <cen...@ta...>]

... And DOH. It's already in the wiki. :)
Sorry. I'll go back to lurking mode. The silent version...



Rene Jensen wrote:
>> #3... GPU-BASED REALTIME RENDER ENGINE
>>
>> A recent idea. I have just finished rendering 800 frames in Blender. 
>> Although I used 7 machines and 3 friends, I still managed to push my 
>> deadline almost a full day. After the war, one of my friends (a gaming 
>> freak) asked me why that could take so long since he didn't think the 
>> result looked better than what he had seen in a recent game. I told him 
>> that in FOSS/Linux the developers are nerds, that have no clue what is 
>> really happening in the rest of the world.
>>
>> He was right of course. Anyone tracking NVidia and ATI can easily see 
>> that one powerful GPU and a lot of trickery could deliver almost in 
>> realtime the same or better result than what 7 powerful machines 
>> couldn't do in 24 hours.
>>
>> And so: Since K3d has a perfectly ready RENDER ENGINE PLUGIN 
>> architecture starting to make a juicy GPU realtime renderer would be 
>> quite easy given a certain amount of mentoring.
>>   
>>     
>
> I am aware of the recent development of  the OpenGL engine, but to me it 
> seems like it is more directed at usability in the UI, and not 
> production rendering itself.
>
> I am also aware, that different GFX-cards would produce different 
> results, and that none of these would have the quality that a real 
> rendering could give. However, I am also aware that for 9 out of 10 
> uses, I would gladly trade a bit of quality if I could see the result 
> immediately. Most uses simply do not demand a perfect render, since the 
> modelling and setup was done sloppily anyway.
>
> What I wanted was more like: Realtime particles/fog. 
> Geometry-instantiation and use of the future OpenGL geometry shader. 
> Ambient occlusion, multi-texture-layer 
> specular/diffuse/bump+displace+parallax shader surface. Realtime 
> shadowcasting. Volumetric light. Shader-based sub-surface-scattering 
> skin textures and similar. A lot of hacks and dirty code, but all 
> confined inside the GL-FX-Engine.
>
> Happy day,
> Rene Jensen
>
>
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