[opensource-dev] Upcoming depth-of-field feature

[Geenz Spad]

I wonder how awesome it'll run on top of the already awesome deferred
renderer that has really awesome performance on really awesome video cards
that have really awesome drivers?

Honestly, as nifty as DOF is as far as the "pretty" factor is concerned,
right now the deferred renderer needs a few more optimizations before any
additional features are added to it, and it still needs a few more work
arounds for buggy drivers (for example, successfully running the deferred
renderer on ATI hardware still tends to vary from person to person,
depending on their hardware and driver combination).  On top of that, you
still need a pretty powerful video card in order to really take advantage of
it, though I think that really has to do with bottle necks within the
rendering system as a whole, not just bottle necks presented by the deferred
renderer its self (although deferred rendering does have it's own bottle
necks, and SL's deferred renderer in particular presents a few interesting
ones of its own due to its flexibility).

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Ricky <kf6kjg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Things ARE getting fixed, just look at the daily scrum reports or the
> progress tracking in the JIRA.  Also take note that sometimes "adding"
> a single feature will often resolve several bugs and feature requests.
>  For instance the Deferred rendering channel will add the ability to
> have greater than 7 light-sources, solving several issues with <ugh>
> facelights and other lights taking out room lighting.
>
> As to optimization, things are pretty optimized.  Yes, they CAN get
> better, but without a major restructuring of how content is created,
> we will never have the high render rates found in the online and
> offline games.  Even so, the work being done on upgrading KDU looks
> like it is improving load/render rates as it is.
>
> Don't forget that there are multiple people in multiple teams working
> on this program.  Some are better at adding new features, and so are
> better utilized in that area.  Some are better testers than coders,
> and so that's where they get used.  Some, fairly rare, are really good
> at making existing code much better.  All these people types are at
> work here, and putting them all into "optimizing or fixing things"
> would be a death-knell for the company.
>
> I'd say, instead of berating new (and very cool,) advancements, we
> should all applaud the work being done.  At the very least it will
> make someone's day that much brighter.
>
> Just my opinion,
> Ricky
> Cron Stardust
>
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Rob Nelson
> <nexisentertainment at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Oh good, let's add more features instead of either optimizing things or
> > fixing things.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > On 11/25/2010 8:56 AM, Opensource Obscure wrote:
> >>   Thanks to BlakOpal today I saw these very cool images:
> >>   http://twitpic.com/3a0vag/full
> >>
> http://picasaweb.google.com/Runitai/DeferredRendering#slideshow/5542853119016406770
> >>
> http://picasaweb.google.com/Runitai/DeferredRendering#slideshow/5543062518728480114
> >>
> >>   Where can I find more information about this depth-of-field
> >>   feature? (wiki pages, blog/forums, JIRA...)
> >>
> >>   It really looks good. I'm going to download a test build now.
> >>
> >>
> >>   Thanks in advance
> >>   Opensource Obscure
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