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(Updated March 21, 2012, 1:01 p.m.)


Review request for Viewer.


Changes
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Updated the diff to generally be cleaner, consolidating all changes into a 
single diff.


Description
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For a while now, Second Life's deferred renderer has had a somewhat "toonish" 
looking specular model, as opposed to other platforms which try to go for more 
physically accurate looking models, such as blinn-phong and similar.

This feature changes the specular model to a technique called normalized 
blinn-phong. The specular model applies the usual blinn-phong term (assume 
NdotV to the power of n), multiplied by a normalization function of:
((n + 2) * (n + 4)) / (8 * PI * (powf(2, -n/2) + n))
Where n is the specular exponent.

Gamma correction is also applied to the result to bring the visual results more 
in line with what you see in high end game engines such as Unreal Engine 3 and 
Frostbite 2, and stored in a lookup texture.

Test plan can be found in the JIRA.
Repository can be found here: https://bitbucket.org/Geenz/viewer-nbp


This addresses bug STORM-1823.
    http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/STORM-1823


Diffs (updated)
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  doc/contributions.txt b32595c5170f92ac2dbab635955b1b86634f1475 
  indra/newview/app_settings/settings.xml 
b32595c5170f92ac2dbab635955b1b86634f1475 
  indra/newview/app_settings/shaders/class1/deferred/multiPointLightF.glsl 
b32595c5170f92ac2dbab635955b1b86634f1475 
  indra/newview/app_settings/shaders/class1/deferred/pointLightF.glsl 
b32595c5170f92ac2dbab635955b1b86634f1475 
  indra/newview/app_settings/shaders/class1/deferred/softenLightF.glsl 
b32595c5170f92ac2dbab635955b1b86634f1475 
  indra/newview/app_settings/shaders/class2/deferred/softenLightF.glsl 
b32595c5170f92ac2dbab635955b1b86634f1475 
  indra/newview/llviewercontrol.cpp b32595c5170f92ac2dbab635955b1b86634f1475 
  indra/newview/pipeline.h b32595c5170f92ac2dbab635955b1b86634f1475 
  indra/newview/pipeline.cpp b32595c5170f92ac2dbab635955b1b86634f1475 

Diff: http://codereview.secondlife.com/r/565/diff/diff


Testing
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* Tested performance characteristics - both Normalized Blinn-Phong and the 
previous model seem to have the same performance
* Checked the perceived "brightness" of the new highlights vs. the old ones - 
new ones seem much brighter at higher shiny values than the old ones, and seem 
much less "cartoonish" as such
* Checked the impact on different bumpiness values at the test rig at Hippo 
Hollow - noticeable visual improvement across all objects (though low shiny 
seems to have a much more subtle light reflectance term - this is expected for 
normalized blinn-phong)
* Tested different LUT resolutions - best looking seems to be 512x128 with 
seemingly no measurable decrease in performance

You can find the latest build here: 
http://automated-builds-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/hg/repo/oz_project-8/rev/251711/index.html


Thanks,

Geenz Spad

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