Water Reflections at Dusk

AdamB · 16 Jun 2011, 09:05

[flash=640,480:3nne8uyn]http://www.youtube.com/v/jauFfC0bVVw[/flash:3nne8uyn]

This combines animated water, realtime raycast reflections and IES light sources.
[I simply screen grabbed rather than export a movie]

Adam

Direct URL is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jauFfC0bVVw

mitcorb · 16 Jun 2011, 11:56

Hi, Adam:
That was a pleasure to watch. Thank you.

Mike Lucey · 16 Jun 2011, 12:53

Cool ..... Adam, you are the second man that I know of that can 'walk on water'

Chris Fullmer · 17 Jun 2011, 03:30

So great Adam, I love it! What an awesome piece of software you've got there.

Ecuadorian · 17 Jun 2011, 04:12

@adamb said:

realtime raycast reflections

Thank you! I really need this for my house videos. So, does this mean the end of the irrcaches? Or will the new reflections only work with planar surfaces?

AdamB · 18 Jun 2011, 07:23

@ecuadorian said:

@adamb said:

realtime raycast reflections

Thank you! I really need this for my house videos. So, does this mean the end of the irrcaches? Or will the new reflections only work with planar surfaces?

IrrCaches still have their use. In the realtime graphics / video games field they are widely used because they offer good performance/quality trade-off. Remember, in the general case, GPUs cannot perform true reflections in realtime. You try creating a curved mirror surface in LumenRT etc and see.

So LightUp Next takes your suggestion Ecuadorian, of allowing embedding of IrrCache in a Group/Component to limit its effect but totally flat mirrored surfaces are treated using this new process.

Adam