Re: Per-pixel lighting

[Dan Z. <que...@ma...>]

On Mar 29, 2007, at 5:42 PM, James Walker wrote:

> Dan Zinngrabe wrote:
>
>> 1. Style?
>> 2. View Hint (this is how it was traditionally done with plug-in
>> renderers in QD3D)
>
> It's my understanding that a view hints object is basically a way of
> wrapping up, for 3DMF storage, information that would exist  
> elsewhere at
> run time.  For example a view hint can record the clear image  
> color, but
> at run time the draw context object knows the clear image color.
>
> I'm leaning toward an object property on the renderer.  I don't  
> envision
> a great need to use it for some objects and not others.
> -- 
>    James W. Walker, Innoventive Software LLC
>    <http://www.frameforge3d.com/>
>


It's something that was renderer-specific back in the QD3D days. A  
good example would be material properties for one of the LightWork  
renderers, that sort of things was stored in ViewHints and could thus  
be saved in a 3DMF edited or viewed with that renderer. Since the per- 
pixel lighting would still be pretty much renderer-specific, using  
the ViewHints makes some sense to me.