Re: [Algorithms] Stripes - how efficient and useful they really are?

[Emanuele S. <in...@fo...>]

It's doable in 1 pass... colors will be nothing more and nothing less than
the original 24 bit lightmap. ;)


Best,

Emanuele.

----- Original Message -----
From: <Pau...@sc...>
To: <gda...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 12:52 PM
Subject: RE: [Algorithms] Stripes - how efficient and useful they really
are?


> On 29/04/2004 11:45:21 gdalgorithms-list-admin wrote:
>
> >> >Speaking of multiple UV sets.
> > > > As far as I understand lightmaps are not really that useful
> > > on PS2, and
> > > > environment
> > > > lighting is usually done using vertex lighting. Is this true?
> > >
> > > Usually yes. Lightmaps are tricky because there is no colour src*dst
> > > blending mode on ps2. You can
> > > do greyscale lightmaps though and there are approximations to colour
> > > src*dst which work quite
> > > nicely. Look on the ps2 newsgroups for more details.
> >
> > Surely that should read "there is no single pass colour src*dst blending
> > mode on the ps2" ???
>
> Not really. Since the hardware doesn't have that blending mode and has
> internally
> no concept of passes, my statement holds.
>
> What you do in multiple passes is up to you, and yes you can "fake"
> coloured lightmaps
> by doing three passes with colour write disabled for the correct colour.
> But who
> wants to be doing three passes? :-)
>
> Cheers, Paul.
>
>
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