Emissive component for PhongMaterial

Nir Lisker nlisker at gmail.com
Mon Apr 29 18:29:20 UTC 2019


After some testing, I'm not sure I completely understand the need for a
self-illum color-specific shaders. The visual results of combining diffuse,
specular and self-illum colors seem fine with and without a self-illum map.
How would a new shader affect this?

- Nir

On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 3:36 PM Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com>
wrote:

> A doubling of the number of shaders was what I was hoping you could avoid
> (else I question the value proposition of doing this). I haven't looked at
> the logic recently, but my thought when I initially replied was that you
> could use the "self-illum" shaders if either the self-illum map was
> non-null or the new emissive component was non-zero. You would probably
> need to pass in a pre-computed map of all 0s in the case where emissive is
> used, but self-illum map is not.
>
> -- Kevin
>
>
> On 4/13/2019 10:07 AM, Nir Lisker wrote:
>
> This might not be as simple as I thought. Even though adding the
> self-illumination color naively works, I suspect I need to add new blend
> modes for the combinations of the self-illumination color and the map. That
> is, in D3DPhongShader.h, 'SelfIlllumTotal = 2' should be replaced with an
> enum and get the same treatment the specular component gets. This means the
> number of pixelShaders doubles and many blending combinations (the
> ShaderFunction functions) are added, which need to be generated via the
> build.gradle file.
>
> Is this correct?
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 1:54 PM Kevin Rushforth <
> kevin.rushforth at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Nir,
>>
>> It seems like a straight-forward addition. On the one hand, an
>> application can use the self-illumination map to accomplish the same
>> thing. However, a separate emissive color does allow changing it without
>> creating a new 1x1 image each time, and makes it possible to combine a
>> self-illumination map with a modulating emissive color without combining
>> the two in the application, so I can see it being a nice convenience.
>> Presuming there is no measurable performance hit, this seems fine to me.
>>
>> -- Kevin
>>
>>
>> On 4/10/2019 3:01 AM, Nir Lisker wrote:
>> > Hi Johan/Kevin,
>> >
>> > Iv'e submitted an issue for adding an emissive component to
>> PhongMaterial
>> > [1].
>> > This component is the single-color counterpart of the self-illumination
>> > map. It functions the same way as diffuse color is to diffuse map and
>> > specular color is to specular map.
>> > Emissive colors are used to simulate an object giving off light since
>> they
>> > do not interact with external lighting.
>> >
>> > Implementation will consist of simple changes to both 3D rendering
>> > pipelines.
>> >
>> > Please evaluate,
>> > Nir
>> >
>> > [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8221720
>>
>>
>


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