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[Manta] visible lights?


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  • From: Carson Brownlee <brownlee@cs.utah.edu>
  • To: manta@sci.utah.edu
  • Subject: [Manta] visible lights?
  • Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:53:42 -0700
a while back drawing lights was discussed. just wanted to make sure no one actually implemented this yet before I add it. Current plan is to just draw spheres where the lights go with a custom material that doesn't cast shadows. I think the ideal solution would be to billboard a picture of a lightbulb as a post-process but this is probably way more trouble than it is worth. Also, we don't have any sort of picking code for clicking on things is this correct? Being able to move the lights around might be spiffy, but then again this seems like something that might be best handled outside of manta itself (so as not to turn a renderer into a modeling app).
thanks,
Carson



  • [Manta] visible lights?, Carson Brownlee, 02/16/2008

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