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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 12:27:27 GMT
From: Gwynne Reddick <gred@agog.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Shadows from hell
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In message <9409150253.AA05050@puttanesca.MIT.EDU> sonny@mit.edu writes:
>
>
> This is apparently what I have to do to render the rest of this scene,
> but this problem seems to be a bug in the software, and I'd call it
> that, except that nobody else has mentioned a similar problem. So, I
> am confused. Does this problem make any sense to anyone out there?
> Specifically, what changed between versions that would cause this?
>
I came across something which sounds very much like this last week whilst
rendering a tunnel which is composed almost entirely of 4 point polys. After
rendering, I discovered a large number of triangular shapes which were entirely
black. Unfortunately, my Amiga's tied up rendering for the next day or two, so
I'm unable to check whether the scene had traced shadows on at the moment. As
soon as it's finished I'll check.
This had me completely stumped since there were far more black tringular patches
in the rendered scene than there were triangular polys in the actual object.
This may also be a related effect - the tunnel had a high specular level, and
when rendered up, some of the specular highlights were applied to single
polygons, and not their neighbours, resulting in bright white single polys
surrounded by polys which hadn't been 'specularised'(?) at all. This even
happens in areas which should be in deep shadow i.e. bright white single
polys amongst others which are almost in complete darkness.
One further point - none of the eroneous 'patches' received any kind of AA
despite being set to low with an adaptive sampling level of 8.
I hadn't posted before, since I haven't had time to really check out what was
going on, but as Wes has also come across this, I thought I'd better chip in.
Gwynne.
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Gwynne Reddick