bagginsbill opened this issue on Aug 22, 2006 · 43 posts
bagginsbill posted Wed, 23 August 2006 at 8:24 AM
Thank you all for your feedback.
Spanki was right: the images are
#1 None, #2 Toon, #3 Incidence, #4 cosine
Any of the techniques can be made to look very close to any of the others by changing parameters. My goal was to find a technique that doesn't require so much parameter changing.
Of course the incidence technique (#3) looks really good, but it has always troubled me that it needs to be updated when you move lights, needs adjustment in different lighting conditions, and doesn't work so great with IBL.
The cosine technique isn't perfect either, but it seemed to me that, overall, it is closer to what you want with less tweaking.
I've stared at these so long, and am so invested in the cosine technique, I was concerned about my own bias influencing my belief that it was better than the others.
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