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Feature #2197

Feature #7: Next-gen renderer (codename "Gloom")

Remove the 'Bias' volumetric lighting system and the Bias light source editor ("bledit")

Added by skyjake almost 8 years ago. Updated over 7 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
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Category:
Cleanup
Start date:
2017-02-06
% Done:

100%

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Description

The old experimental bias lighting system has two components:
  • Direct light from point light sources. Tracks configured light sources and determines whether individual vertices are lit by them. Does simple raycasting to determine occlusions (shadows).
  • A volumetric grid is used for distributing soft ambient light from lit sectors to the immediate surroundings.

The problem with these is that the implementation is entirely CPU-based and operates only on vertices. This is incompatible with the future direction of maximum GPU utilization and per-pixel lighting. Therefore the old experimental implementation should be removed, and a better GPU-based lighting system should be implemented for Doomsday 2.


Related issues

Related to Bug #244: Bias Grid Lock UpClosed2005-07-11

Related to Feature #1158: Soft Sector LightingClosed2003-05-22

Related to Feature #1341: Soft edges for sector lightingRejected2004-04-12

Related to Feature #2035: Map lighting editor (volume, surface, and point sources)New2015-05-05

Associated revisions

Revision b778a8e9 (diff)
Added by skyjake almost 8 years ago

Cleanup|Renderer|World: Disable the bias light grid, bias light sources, and “bledit”

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Revision b6960004 (diff)
Added by skyjake almost 8 years ago

Cleanup|Client|World: Disabled more code related to “bledit”

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Revision 4a40a38f (diff)
Added by skyjake almost 8 years ago

Cleanup|Renderer|World: Removed obsolete source files

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Revision 81e54237 (diff)
Added by skyjake almost 8 years ago

Cleanup|Documentation: Removed obsolete console commands and variables

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History

#1 Updated by skyjake almost 8 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)

#2 Updated by skyjake almost 8 years ago

  • Related to Bug #244: Bias Grid Lock Up added

#3 Updated by skyjake almost 8 years ago

#4 Updated by skyjake almost 8 years ago

#5 Updated by skyjake almost 8 years ago

  • Related to Feature #2035: Map lighting editor (volume, surface, and point sources) added

#6 Updated by skyjake almost 8 years ago

#7 Updated by skyjake almost 8 years ago

#8 Updated by skyjake almost 8 years ago

  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

#9 Updated by skyjake almost 8 years ago

  • Status changed from In Progress to Closed

#10 Updated by skyjake over 7 years ago

  • Category changed from Redesign to Cleanup

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