[opensource-dev] Question about the rendering and how to hide textures selectively

[Marine Kelley]

Yes I have been looking into them already, but they at best display even
more geometry on top of what's already rendered. I would like not to add
more strain on the rendering than there already is. As for the reason, it
is to go with the new features I'm adding to the RLV v2.9 (see my blog for
details : realrestraint.blogspot.com). In short, it is meant for the avatar
to be "blindfolded" in a more interesting way than just to have a big prim
hogging the screen and blocking the view. I want the immediate vicinity to
be visible but things a little farther to be hidden from view. With all the
camera restrictions that come with it. All that is already done and working
well, but I want the textures to be hidden (save for the bump & shine),
because the color of a surface is not supposed to be visible, only the
"touch feeling" of it. On a side note, this won't be appropriate only for
blindfolds, but also for mazes and multiplayer games where the camera is
supposed to be restricted to be close to the avatar.


On 12 June 2014 15:28, Ambrosia <chaosstar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why not look at parts of the code that get used for fancy displays already?
>
> For example the development -> render metadata -> physics(?) dipslay. It
> removes all in-world textures and shows physics as colors on the objects.
>
> I am sure you can find something interesting in that code.
>
> --Chalice Yao
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Marine Kelley <marinekelley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been looking and doing trial-and-error for hours, and still haven't
>> found out how to do this :
>>
>> I'd like to add a way to the RLV to actually not render the diffuse
>> textures in world (but still render them on the avatars and their
>> attachments, and render normal and specular maps in-world as well), both in
>> deferred and forward rendering. Basically I want the world to look as if no
>> texture was rezzed, except for the avatars and all their attachments. As a
>> bonus, I want partly (not totally) transparent surfaces in world to be
>> opaque and untextured as well.
>>
>> Anyone among you knows how to do that without butchering the rendering
>> pipeline ? It shouldn't be hard, but I've been searching for hours for the
>> spot where the viewer retrieves a texture by its UUID in the fetched
>> textures, to apply it to a face, but no way to find that.
>>
>> Thanks for any pointer you could give me,
>> Marine
>>
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