OMR Model Render

[Lasse Deleuran]

I have pushed a new commit to the source code which speeds up rendering time significantly for older hardware by not generating textures, but rather load them asynchronously as images.

Rendering transparent parts using a custom shader still fails spectacularly. 


There are multiple issues here. 

One is of precision. I am writing depths in pixel colors, which is far from ideal when there are multiple layers of faces hitting the same pixel.

Another issue is the stud and anti-stud geometries. For obvious reasons we do not have the disc on the bottom of a stud. However. This asymmetry causes the renderer to think the missing geometry should be rendered completely light or dark, depending on wether the missing geometry is facing toward or away from the camera.

Still. The biggest issue is with precision an transferring enough data to perform direct volumetric rendering:


Many days have gone studying and testing... many more are to be spent.

But imagine if we suddenly had realistic transparent LEGO part rendering without raytracing... it would be a game changer!