Re: More wireframe renderer

[James W. <ja...@fr...>]

Jose' Cruanyes wrote:

> I've currently a person exploring new visualizations with multipass  
> rendering
> 
> (contours, hidden-line, flat shading ecc)
> 
> We're doing it modifying the new OpenGL renderer, once finished, we  
> have to talk about the best way to deploy, the current one will be  
> slowed by one test for a property at every pass, the multipass can be  
> just added to the renderer, instead of create a new one...

Is that going to be compatible with the current use of multiple passes 
to handle more than 8 lights?

Of course, one can also do multi-pass tricks in client code, since one 
can control whether Quesa clears buffers at the start of a frame, and 
whether Quesa swaps buffers at the end of a frame.

I wouldn't expect one property test per pass to be significantly slow. 
I'm planning to add a property test to determine whether to do per-pixel 
lighting.

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