+1
The default settings are a joke at this point...and so are the materials.
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*Greg Punchatz*
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On 11/8/2012 2:05 PM, Ed Manning wrote:
material couldn't be a BSDF version of Phong (or Blinn or Ward or
Ashikhmin) with fresnel and energy conservation? Is there a reason
the default light can't be, say, mib_photometric? Why shouldn't the
default material be updated when technology advances? Wouldn't it help
move people along by making the default versions of things be the
latest ones rather than the oldest? You could always have a "Classic
Mode" button for people who just don't want to change.
Why not make improved versions of things in addition to retaining
legacy versions? It's not like the legacy versions are being actively
developed anyway. I'm sure the code in some of the shaders hasn't
been touched in 15 years. I'd also be kind of shocked if making these
additions required a compatibility-killing change to core application
code -- if that were the case, it wouldn't be possible for people to
make modern 3rd-party renderers like Arnold or VRay work with
Softimage and Maya.
