Irrlicht Engine

I used two lamps placed in oposite sides. The FSRad actually process the lights, but the result is always like no lightmaps. No lightmaps meaning the lightmap images are all black? BTW, 1.0.2 was the latest OCTTools release. Sorry that my site is down. It's been problematic and I haven't had time t...

So, if irrlicht and your tools support vertex normals, that's enough. Smooth groups I'd consider secondary once the other is in. The oct2obj smoothng normals restoring...is surely nice, but...i think problem is in fsrad... Yes, indeed. No way to make smoothing work with FSRad. But adding autosmooth...

but...irlicht has smoothing normals(VN at obj), hasn't it? Anyway, i am way more interested in your new lightmapper ;) I expect Irrlicht supports OBJ's VNs. But not OBJ smoothing groups, if I recall. So yeah, I could build the VN-generating code into OCT2OBJ, but I was putting it into OBJ2MIM first...

2) One more gotcha, the only thing that I see as bad of oct (I helped murphy a lot with the testings ;) ) No smoothed normals. That is, you didn't notice any weirder thing as usually people do buildings with plain, straight wall. Load an spher in oct format, or a curved arc, or an spehric ceiling.....

Sorry, still not much progress to speak of. I just haven't had the time to figure out how to do all the floating point stuff in the GPU. If anyone has a link to a tutorial showing (simply) how to render and retrieve pixels in floats that aren't clamped 0.0 - 1.0 on ATI hardware, feel free to pass it...

Nothing much new to report yet. I didn't work on it at all over my winter break (worked on a couple projects which will hopefully make me some money instead -- sorry! :) ). I did about two hours of research over the past couple weeks, but had no time to do anything last weekend. I'm hoping to get so...

Another feature which I think might make a lot of people happy would be the ability to load "OBJ+OBJ" style lightmapping, where a model has two OBJs and two MTLs -- one contains texture coordinates/info, the other contains lightmap coordinates/info. I almost did it myself at one point, but...

There was already some discussion of this very same topic in this very same forum, though I don't think anything came of it...

Nope, sorry! Been busy. This is finals week, among other things. Hopefully I'll get some work done on it over the winter break...

Glad to hear you're still interested, though.

For my initial test, I'm planning to put many billion operations through the GPU per scene. We'll see what kind of difference that makes before seeing where else I'm going to go with it. But this can only be done with hardware and drivers that do floating point, which rules out older hardware. The G...

My current thinking is that it will require the framebuffer object extension (should be supported on not-latest-and-greatest cards but with recent drivers) and HDR rendering/floating point textures (this may require a fairly recent card). But I don't really know. I've just barely scratched the surfa...

But I wonder ... why did you not start from fsrad ? I have at least two reasons for wanting to implement it from scratch: Implementing it from scratch provides a better learning experience for me -- I know a lot more about a lot of things now than when I started. I am the sole author and have compl...

Sorry to beak this thread with a basic coding question ... however ... how do you paint the background lightmap image with a custom color ( other than black ) ? ( I am working on fsrad too ... ) Well, in my case it's easy. I have an if statement which is true if a lightmap pixel falls inside a poly...

vermeer wrote:It looks like you are getting near...

Only for the first pass!

Moving stuff into the GPU and multiple passes is still a ways off.

puh, the rendering time for the last image (128x128 hemicube with random orientation) is practically the same as for the plain 128x128 hemicube. The random orientation one is just one additional call to glRotatef().