Hi Mário, This is some good news. I know this might be a bit late, but I wonder; have you considered to use some other ray tracing engine instead of writing it yourself? I was thinking about the Cycles rendering engine used in Blender. It is Apache 2.0 licensed. They have some tine info it as a standalone at [1] and the source repo is a [2].
I will try it out when I get the chance. Regards Nick [1] http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.6/Source/Render/Cycles/Standalone [2] https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/C/ 2015-10-27 23:27 GMT+01:00 Mário Luzeiro <[email protected]>: > Hello all, > > I would like to show you some screenshots of the progress of a 3d-viewer > render based on raytracing (with some vitamins) that I am working on: > https://meocloud.pt/link/aaf06e3f-e308-40c8-bddb-f8aa762b4a16/20151027_3d-viewer/ > (please download the file image if you want see it in full resolution) > > To keep this email short, I will not add details, please feel free to make > any questions. > > There are (at moment) two modes of rendering: preview (while moving) or > quality rendering. In preview mode it render a fast draft in order to get > some interactive framerate while adjusting the view of the board. So the > screenshots label as 'preview' shows it to compare draft/quality. > > The quality rendering time.. depends on how many CPUs you have and (special) > how fast your cache is. In my laptop, 8 cpu processor, it can take longer > than a eye blink.. ..probably two or three eye blinks. > > If you would like to try it in your machine, you can try built my branch: > https://code.launchpad.net/~mrluzeiro/kicad/kicad_new3d-viewer > (probably have issues to build on windows) > > There are still lot of room for improvements, ideas and things to do ... > special, add of 3D models (Cirilo is working on path, plugins and cache of > models, I plan to start next working on a parser or adding some support to > display the 3D models by the render... ) > > I would welcome anyone interested in this areas to join us to speed up the > development or add a little more of improvements. > > Cheers, > Mario Luzeiro > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
