Forum: Bryce


Subject: Self illumination material in Bryce

DukeNukem2005 opened this issue on May 28, 2008 ยท 25 posts


AgentSmith posted Wed, 28 May 2008 at 6:29 PM

Radiosity is bounced light from another source. Sounds like Duke is after what is referred to as;

*Self-Illuminated Objects/Material
*Light Emitting Objects/Material

Its when a mesh can itself becomes a light source, throwing light out in all directions in the shape of the mesh. Think glow in the dark platic toy that you would get out of a cereal box. Or, those glowing necklaces you would get at the fair.

Bryce cannot do this, it would have to be faked. But, not to put Bryce down, a lot of renderers cannot do this. But, its easier to find than what you would think, Blender can do it. (internally or with a 3rd party renderer like Indigo)

This is one of the ablilities I had discussed with DAZ to give Bryce 6 around when alpha testing had started, but it just couldn't be done (right now), and I'm not sure if we would ever want it in Bryce, as the render times would be ridiculous. (maybe later with the advent of 8 core cpus, lol)

AS

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