Hi, On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Morten Mikkelsen <mikkels...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Ok, I can see we have an issue with singularities, but using >> mikktspace does not seem ideal for anisotropic shading. There's still >> many cases where you can line up the tangents quite well at UV seams >> even if the UV's are not connected, > > Generally this is not the case. It goes bad at least 95% or more of all > cases where you try to just average tangents from > an unwrap no matter what. Borders are splits when tangents aren't aligned > so odds of this going well are close to non.
It depends if you use any UV map or a UV map designed for the tangent space. If you just use a UV map that was intended to map textures to the mesh it's fairly pointless, might as well generate it based on orco's then. There's very common cases where you can avoid a seam, any object that's roughly shaped like a sphere, cylinder or torus would have a seam which we can avoid in principle. > results if you average with two neighboring triangles, but not the >> ones on the other side. >> > > That's not what happens though. What happens is that all the tangents > surrounding the pole get added together. > What you end up doing is stretching the highlight in a very distorted way > across the entire top row of triangles. Right, that's indeed what it is doing now. But with mikktspace you also get a discontinuity between the triangles, so neither solution is perfect. I'm trying to think of a way to do better. >> As I understand it mikktspace is based on comparing UV coordinates, >> whereas we should actually be deciding merge/nomerge based on the >> difference between tangents in UV space, with some threshold. > > If you were to try and achieve normal mapping using this approach then I > can confidently tell you it's an awful solution. > The idea has been tried and done to death by many of us game developers > back in the day when the concepts of tangent space were still young. > > My recommendation is definitely that you use mikktspace for normal mapping. This is not about normal mapping, for that I 100% agree we should use mikktspace. > You use it for aniso as well if someone wants to use unwrap based tangents. > And if someone wants to use orco then you synthesize the tangents. It's the > only proper/stable/good way to do it. > > M.Fox. spend years on aniso in blender, studying various cases, and I am > sure he can tell you first hand the per vertex averaged triangles just > didn't work well. > He was getting errors all the time. Ok, I'm still convinced we can do better than either, will try to figure it out. Brecht. _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers