> There's one potential stumbling block: The "main loop", as I'd call it. In 
> order to implement SMP this has changed quite a lot. Re-starting the 
> render phase over and over again might not be as easy as it was in 3.6.

Once all blocks have finished in the current image, I wonder if you could 
re-submit blocks again from the beginning to be re-rendered?  The main loop 
code would have to deal with averaging the results rather than just writing 
them to the screen/file.

> I hope, however, that whoever picks up that glove will not copy MCPov 
> behaviour 1:1, as I recently found out that MCPov gets diffuse 
> illumination wrong by what appears to be a factor of 2 in brightness.

Really?  What exactly do you mean by this (the whole scene is 2x bright, but 
relative brightnesses are correct)? How do I check it?

Post a reply to this message