Definitely, I watched the longer demo material you uploaded and would like to try it out in the near future. The modularity of it all looks really nice too.
On 3 June 2013 14:11, Mike Wong | artixels.gmail <[email protected]> wrote: > I know you guys all have secret weapons, haha. Right, escher glossy > tries to follow more the cgi glossy shading thinking. Hope you will have > some free time later to testdrive our plugins :) The integral image > component in Escher is actually a standalone plugin where techy compers > could use it to do quick arbitrary box filtering too :) > > > On Tuesday, June 4, 2013, Michael Garrett wrote: > >> Hi Mike, that sounds awesome, and Howard, point taken that it may be >> secret sauce ;) >> It's a bit of a holy grail being able to easily do fast glossy spec >> importance sampling even though it's not full ray tracing. >> >> I created a gizmo and put it on Nukepedia a while ago which was my hacky >> look at prefiltering an environment map. Nukepedia is down right now but >> it's called EnvConvolve. Basically it convolves the image based on a >> specular brdf but it's not a complete solution by any means. >> >> >> On 3 June 2013 13:29, Mike Wong | artixels.gmail <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hey Horward, glad you responded to Michael, i missed it somehow and >>> thank you for checking other vids too :) >>> >>> Escher glossy shader is a bit more than just a lookup, it samples >>> additional points from the lightprobe based on simple importance sampling >>> and then it further allows you to prefilter each sample, the prefiltering >>> is done via an on-the-fly precomputed integral image . Such combination >>> allows a speedy and two-level control of the glossiness. By the way, the >>> SH can do phong shading if you prefer another look. SH + glossy are >>> good friends :) >>> >>> Best, >>> Mike >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, June 4, 2013, Howard Jones wrote: >>> >>>> Think you're supposed to buy it not take their trade secrets ;) >>>> H >>>> ------------------------------ >>>> *From:* Michael Garrett <[email protected]> >>>> *To:* Nuke user discussion <[email protected]> >>>> *Sent:* Monday, 3 June 2013, 17:40 >>>> *Subject:* Re: [Nuke-users] [plug] Escher Spherical Harmonics tools >>>> >>>> Thanks for posting this! How are you doing the glossy specular? Do you >>>> calculate more coefficients or are you just looking up along the reflection >>>> vector? Also how are you raising the specular power when doing specular? It >>>> looks good even if it's not "accurate". >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 3 June 2013 04:15, Mike Wong | artixels.gmail <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Nukers, a short video of Escher SH tools, thanks ! >>>> https://vimeo.com/67543236 >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Nuke-users mailing list >>>> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>>> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Nuke-users mailing list >>>> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>>> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Nuke-users mailing list >>> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >
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