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Ton Roosendaal 4a52c6ac6f Orange; more render & compo stuff!
-> Rendering in RenderLayers

It's important to distinguish a 'render layer' from a 'pass'. The first is
control over the main pipeline itself, to indicate what geometry is being
is rendered. The 'pass' (not in this commit!) is related to internal
shading code, like shadow/spec/AO/normals/etc.

Options for RenderLayers now are:
- Indicate which 3d 'view layers' have to be included (so you can render
  front and back separately)
- "Solid", all solid faces, includes sky at the moment too
- "ZTransp", all transparent faces
- "Halo", the halos
- "Strand", the particle strands (not coded yet...)

Currently only 2 'passes' are exported for render, which is the "Combined"
buffer and the "Z. The latter now works, and can be turned on/off.

Note that all layers are still fully kept in memory now, saving the tiles
and layers to disk (in exr) is also todo.

-> New Blur options

The existing Blur Node (compositor) now has an optional input image. This
has to be a 'value buffer', which can be a Zbuffer, or any mask you can
think of. The input values have to be in the 0-1 range, so another new
node was added too "Map Value".
The value input can also be used to tweak blur size with the (todo)
Time Node.

Temporal screenies:
http://www.blender.org/bf/rt.jpg
http://www.blender.org/bf/rt1.jpg
http://www.blender.org/bf/rt2.jpg

BTW: The compositor is very slow still, it recalulates all nodes on each
change still. Persistant memory and dependency checks is coming!
2006-01-26 22:18:46 +00:00
bin/.blender Bugfix #2094 2005-01-05 10:27:48 +00:00
doc Updated BL text. 2005-06-06 12:18:44 +00:00
extern bullet in the orange branch seems to be merged incorrectly. updated to the latest version 2006-01-11 06:24:18 +00:00
intern doing MSCV6 project woodoo ( preparing orange --> bf migration ) 2006-01-26 22:05:39 +00:00
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projectfiles doing MSCV6 project woodoo ( preparing orange --> bf migration ) 2006-01-26 22:05:39 +00:00
projectfiles_vc7 Radiance HDR image file includes 2005-11-21 19:16:52 +00:00
release small fix for icons to correctly use alpha instead of converting grey background to alpha. 2006-01-22 23:27:43 +00:00
source Orange; more render & compo stuff! 2006-01-26 22:18:46 +00:00
tools commented out lib not anymore needed in scons build system 2006-01-24 00:05:47 +00:00
COPYING Biiig commit! Thanks to 2-3 weeks of cvs freeze... 2004-12-27 19:28:52 +00:00
Makefile Clean up for Makefiles: some of the directories were being printed 2005-04-09 22:40:34 +00:00
README Test commit, nothing to see here. 2004-08-24 02:51:07 +00:00
SConstruct Stupid old SConstruct made adding openexr more difficult than it should be. 2006-01-10 12:27:35 +00:00

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