0005239: Reflection probes support in the engine

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0005239	The Dark Mod	Graphics	public	03.05.2020 11:12	28.06.2020 08:19

Reporter	cabalistic	Assigned To	cabalistic
Priority	normal	Severity	normal	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	assigned	Resolution	open
Product Version	TDM 2.08
Target Version	TDM 2.09

Summary	0005239: Reflection probes support in the engine
Description	Currently, setting up cubemap reflections in materials is a rather tedious and manual process for mappers. To support this feature better and make it more convenient to use, I propose to borrow the concept of reflection probes as utilized by e.g. Unity or Godot: mappers can reflection probe entities in their map, which the engine can then use to automatically capture cubemaps from those positions on command. Materials can be defined to use reflection probes, in which case the engine will auto-assign them cubemaps from reflection probes in their vicinity (either the nearest or possibly a blend of any relevant probe).
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stgatilov 28.06.2020 07:06 administrator ~0012638	It is supposed to add one more stage of dmap process? Like what runParticle does for particle collisions (although I did not integrate it into dmap yet).

cabalistic 28.06.2020 07:15 developer ~0012639	It will definitely need an in-engine command to generate reflection maps at all "probe" positions. I guess it would make sense to make that part of dmap eventually?

stgatilov 28.06.2020 08:19 administrator ~0012640	Yes, dmap looks like the best place, otherwise mappers will have to do some manual steps. You can do it like it works with runAAS and runParticle: create a new compiler tool, and after some time integrate it into dmap (like AAS).

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
03.05.2020 11:12	cabalistic	New Issue
03.05.2020 11:12	cabalistic	Status	new => assigned
03.05.2020 11:12	cabalistic	Assigned To	=> cabalistic
28.06.2020 07:06	stgatilov	Note Added: 0012638
28.06.2020 07:15	cabalistic	Note Added: 0012639
28.06.2020 08:19	stgatilov	Note Added: 0012640