Material System Update
An hour here, an hour there, LxEngine is gradually adopting the new material system. The refactoring is a work-in-progress and (this being a hobby project) some percentage of the older code has been unapologetically broken. I’m almost around the bend such that the advantages – other than simply adding cleaner, more logic code – will start coming online. For now, here’s the Standford Bunny run with a two-pass blur/color-inversion shader on top of the first pass’ quilt-like shader…
So much more still to do: better caching, paging and load on demand, loading materials entirely from file, inheritance of parameters, dynamically generating dependent data, sharing a common architecture with ray-tracer, etc., etc., etc.
(I also kicked off a $60 experiment with a small SSD to see if it helps with development on my 4 year old desktop – should arrive next week.)