Indigo Renderer Forum

Hi, I'd like know why unbiased render engines can't work with procedural textures. Is not a request, but I worked ever with mathematical textures and I love its infinite definition... it's more curiosity than other thing. Anyone know it?

Well they could, if the "interface/structure" would be there. Maybe Nik will
add it in the future who knows. Lets say, this is a request!



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psor

Ok then, I supose it is my wet-dream request.

Nah....
It was requested more than once by many ppl, so, you definitely don't own that request

If indigo rendered to a vector image format then I would like to see procedural textures, but since it doesn't then I just think it is just a waste of time and energy.

Why do you need a vector image format for this? O.o
Vector images also aren't built fractally so that you can zoom in to infinity...

I'm talking about, effectively, fractals, recursive functions without end.

The fractal, perlin noise, ramps (or gradients), checkboards and so on we can find in maya, xsi or max for example.

Yeah, I know.
I just don't get neepneep's point of exporting vector graphics...

not exporting....but RENDERING vector graphics....Because then you can zoom in infinitely on procedural textures and still have a nice resolution (I'm talking la-la land here)

Since indigo renders bitmaps then I dont think there is a point to having procedural stuff in indigo since there is no benefit whatsoever....just bake the procedural stuff to a texture in the 3D software and export to bitmap.

@neepneep

*cough* *cough* *cough*

Of course there is a benefit of it. You can render details without
changing the texture. You can do animations, zooming in out without
loosing detail. You don't have to create bump/displacement maps
for everything, you just use a procedural texture ... I could go on.



edit: Download the fryrender Demo and play with the material
editor and the procedural maps, you'll fall in love ... ;o))




take care
psor

Sure it would be useful for animations....

...but I'm still thinking about static still images, no movies, no camera zipping around or anything - just one single rendered image and you zoom in and in and in and in and in and in.....


...I might have eaten too much sugar at work again today

Oh yes there is, especially with high resolution textures - far smaller size (namely zero + what it needs to process such a texture) and possibility for far higher resolutions

OMG O.o a vector with correct light transport.... imagine! the density of ray would have to be unlimited

@neepneep

Don't worry mate! Nik already mentioned programmable shaders,
we'll see what the future will surprise us with ... hehe!



take care
psor