Enlighten - Realtime radiosity engine

[JeffG2]

Interesting... pretty cool video at link.

http://www.geomerics.com/enlighten-media.htm

As part of the build up to GDC 2008 we have relased a video highlighting some of the workflow benefits of Enlighten. This video features real-time footage of our Lead Artist Ivan Pedersen using Enlighten to re-colour and re-light a world.

[mcvltd]

Impressive.... I guess this is the direction the vray standalone version will take?... <he says in hopefull voice>.......

[YoyoBoy]

"Radiosity" means that it does the GI by using vertex coloring, right?

[Aldaryn]

Not neccesarely. Radiosity is just another method of solving energy transfer related equations, but in most cases the mesh used to gain the radiosity solution is usead as a vertex colored base to look up the solution. I don't think this game engine uses meshing like that to store, and to compute the solution in any way, since it would be a waste of precious memory, more like some screenspace sample buffer, or I don't know...

Impressive. "real" GI is on its way to gaming. Combined with ambient occlusion shaders thing like this sure can bring some realism to dynamic game scenes.

Best regards,

A.

[instinct]

you might also wanna take a look at lightsprint. you can get a working demo of their implementation actually.

http://lightsprint.com/demo.html

Regards,
Thorsten