Hi Guys, would the design of your current raytracer code lend itself to tracing voxels filled with smoke or water? Thanks, -Charles
On Dec 12, 2007 8:50 AM, Jean-Sébastien Guay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Michele, > > > Thank you Jean, Adrian was kind enough to send me already its code, I > > am reviewing it now :) > > Good, I don't have access to my home machine so I would have sent it > to you in a few hours... :-) > > > I was thinking, maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to integrate YafRay > > into OSG, the license (LGPL) seems ok with it, unlike POV-Ray. > > When I started my Masters, my first attempt was to try and make an > interface between OSG and Yafray. Unfortunately, the main developer > (Lynx) was not very open to requests to changes in the build system > and other things that would have made this kind of development easier. > He seemed to just want to do his thing, not really wanting external > programs to use Yafray code directly (but that may just be an > impression - take it with a grain of salt). > > In the end, I just used OSG's IntersectionVisitor and eventually > Adrian's kd-tree. I didn't really need advanced effects, just > intersection testing, so that was enough. But if Lynx can be brought > on to help do a real integration of Yafray with OSG with the goal of > doing some realtime raytracing, that may be really interesting. > > If the question is which Open Source raytracer would be the best to > try such an integration, Yafray is definitely my first choice. It's > really fast, and gives very good results. > > J-S > -- > ______________________________________________________ > Jean-Sebastien Guay [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://whitestar02.webhop.org/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > -- AsymptopiaSoftware | [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.asymptopia.org
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