Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Rembrandt] the plan

[Frederic B. <fre...@fr...>]

Hi Lauri,

> 
> Hi all.
> 
> > 3. define an XML format for describing the two possible rendering
> > pipelines (the current and new). The format will introduce
> > optional elements (such as shadows, ambient occlusion, glow).
> 
> I want to point out my work on my "newcameras" branch:
> https://gitorious.org/~zan/fg/zans-flightgear/commits/newcameras
> which
> allows user to define the rendering pipeline in preferences.xml. It
> does not (yet?) have everything Rembrandt's pipeline needs, but most
> likely is easily enhanced to support those things.
> 
> Basically this version adds support for multiple camera passes,
> texture targets, texture formats, passing textures from one pass to
> another etc, while preserving the standard rendering line if user
> wants that.
> 
> I wish this work could be extended (or maybe even I can extend it ;)
> to handle the Rembrandt camera system. This will not solve all
> problems in the merge, but some of them.

I would like to extend the format to avoid duplicating the stages when
you have more than one viewport. What I see is to specify a pipeline
as a template, with conditions like in effects, and have the current
camera layout refer the pipeline that would be duplicated, resized and
positioned for each declared viewport

Regards,
-Fred