Re: transparency & specularity

[Lane R. <la...@if...>]

on Sun, Apr 4, 2004 James W. Walker may have said:

>I now have some code that renders shiny transparent stuff fairly  
>nicely, but I wonder whether it should be an option, since there is a  
>cost.  In a quick test in Geom Test, the frame rate went from about 355  
>FPS down to 325 FPS when I added the extra shininess processing.  I  
>could make it a renderer option, like the depth of the depth buffer.   
>Opinions, anyone?

An option sounds good...but that brings up a question; should options
like this be on or off by default?

My thought is on, but that there should be a single call to turn off all
costly options for those programs interested mainly in speed.

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