>> Sure. I was just wondering, since Blender doesn't do anything a GPU 
>> can't do, whether there's some way to use GPU acceleration, that's all.
> 
> You mean the Blender internal renderer?

Indeed.

> Umm, that's a fully-fledged 
> raytracer with multiple reflections/refractions, ray traced shadows, 
> ambient occlusion, all that stuff etc, as you will know from the POV/GPU 
> discussion these things are quite hard to do on a GPU, if possible at all.

I thought ambient occlusion (as opposed to other GI algorithms) was 
specifically suited to GPU implementation?

Anyway, I just thought if you weren't using ray tracing, it ought to be 
possibly to run on the GPU. I guess not...

(What's the point of a ray tracer in a product that only renders triangles?)

Post a reply to this message