15 Mar 2010, 12:44 am
Hi richie!
I find it a bit strange that I'm feeling nervous on the internet. 
pumibel wrote:
So go ahead with your ideas- I may or may not understand it. I do have a limited programming education: Alice, Visual basic, HTML, and some Linux code.
Don't worry, you don't really need programming knowledge to understand.
Basically, rather than calculating where to draw all the objects - rendering them - an imaginary straight line is drawn for every pixel. The direction the lines go in and where they begin is determined by the camera, and then they continue straight until they collide with something. Whatever colour they hit is drawn on the corresponding pixels.
The lines bounce off reflective materials and go through transparent ones, so those effects would look very realistic.
Not sure if this method would help with lighting though...
So, that's it. I hope I didn't lose you anywhere.
Though I probably did. XD
16 Mar 2010, 5:44 pm
