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Subject: Poser 4.0 Renderer

loopguru opened this issue on Nov 01, 2002 ยท 8 posts
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loopguru ( ) posted Fri, 01 November 2002 at 10:27 PM ยท edited Thu, 15 August 2024 at 7:13 PM

Hi. Does anyone know what rendering technique(s) (e.g radiosity, ray-tracing, etc) Poser uses in its image renderer? Thanks. ks

ScottA ( ) posted Sat, 02 November 2002 at 2:52 PM

Oh hell...I used to know this. Sreed? I think that's what it's called. I can't really remember.

dan whiteside ( ) posted Sat, 02 November 2002 at 7:23 PM

Close Scott - Sree3D, created by an amazing fellow, Sree Kotay. But that's just the realtime display. I think that Poser 4's renderer is based on a Phong render (sure looks like one).Poser 5 is a hybrid Surface Subdivsion/Ray Tracer. Best -Dan

stewer ( ) posted Wed, 06 November 2002 at 3:22 AM

Sree3D is the realtime preview, correct. The P4 renderer is Larry's work, from what I can see a "standard" scanline Phong renderer. No radiosity, no ray-tracing. The Poser 5 renderer is a node-based REYES-renderer that can use ray tracing for certain features like reflections. Where Phong renderer are interpolating polygons normals when shading a pixel, REYES renderers divide polygons in micropolygons that are smaller than a pixel.

Anthony Appleyard ( ) posted Wed, 06 November 2002 at 8:54 AM

Oh yes. Poser 4's startup shows various names including Sreekant Kotay. Poser 3's startup screen showed names infl;uding Mowgli Windos!!! (Rudyard Kipling's character working for Microsoft??? :-) )

stewer ( ) posted Wed, 06 November 2002 at 8:41 PM

Sree is a genius. Never met him in person, but just reading his code blows my mind.

loopguru ( ) posted Wed, 06 November 2002 at 10:47 PM

Where have you seen his code?

stewer ( ) posted Thu, 07 November 2002 at 6:57 AM

If you look closely at the Poser 5 splash screen you will notice my name in it...plus I worked with the Viewpoint SDK before that.

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