BlackLight Renderer
 

I'm at it again! This time I'm writing a path tracer (unbiased) with a whole different program heirarchy to allow for imports and exports!

I'll post my first few pics (just plain raytraced) in a few hours.

Sound both intriguing and confusing, can you give us a little info about what its going to do and such plz.

Chris

can't wait to use it! ;)

Eghhemm....
a few hours? :p

So here's to show that it works

I'm having a bit of trouble retrieving the color of the material from the object due to the class hierarchy set up, but this will be re-arranged and fixed.

It supports an infinite amount of objects, which will allow for later .3ds and .obj loading (after I implement triangle support, of course).

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/8836/rtraceuo2.jpg

Colors sorted. 4 primitives in the scene at the moment, renders instantly.

Next: Diffuse lighting and point (sphere) lights.

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/2...klight2lu0.jpg

Looking nice

Diffuse shading:

next: shadows.

http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/2...klight4zm6.jpg

Shadows

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/6...klight5eb4.jpg

its really starting to shape up


If i were you, i would have put this in the WIP section. its kind of hidden here..

I'll have to PM a mod to get their OK, but sure.

So I've been working for the past few days on a general illumination model.

Well... I've incorporated some form of uniform monte-carlo hemispherical illumination... but the spheres are coming out messed up.

It may be my sphere-ray intersection code, but the spheres are coming out really messed up. The plane renders fine.

http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/6...klight6gx3.jpg

hmm, it looks cool ;)

you'll figure it out soon ;)

thanks. Unfortunately, I couldn't figure it out after all... I'm scrapping the whole rendering loop and replacing it with a path tracing algorithm. That way, I can get anti-aliasing and soft shadows with no extra effort.

Stay tuned guys.

I'm still tuned.