non-view dependent imap?

[super gnu]

all this discussion about realtime engines and whatnot, and the upcoming ability to use imap in rt gpu....

would it be possible to script (or code) a system that generated an imap that covers all visible surfaces?

i know we can render to texture, but thats much more fiddly than doing an imap.



-thinking about it i guess it isnt so simple, since its resolution dependent.. how close are you to each face? and on large scenes you would likely have some truly huge datasets..

[vlado]

Technically it is possible to sample all triangles in the scene in some way with a specified density in world units (this is how we do baking to PTex in V-Ray for Maya). Maybe you could specify that you want the densest samples to be no closer than 5cm apart, and V-Ray could work from there.

Best regards,
Vlado