will krakatoa 2 feature self illuminated particles?
would be cool to have fastest particles emit light and illuminate surrounding particles!
You can almost do that now. We can get the average emission of particles at a point, but we can’t get the sum. You can multiply the average by the total number of particles to get the sum, but I’m not sure how the weighting would work on that. I’m on pain meds, so I’m not exactly thinking this though. I just did a test where I did a KCM to make Lambert illumination, then used another KCM to diffuse that illumination through the particles. Creepy how easy it was. Somewhat reminded me of the earliest beta testing I did of Krakatoa before shading support was built in. KCM’s are getting a bit closer to Box#3, but there’s still bits missing. We can’t do iteration in a KCM yet, which would help a lot with illumination.
- Chad
Sum is planned as another output socket of the NParticles operator (the operator name will also change because it is too long and it won’t be Average only anymore).
As per your other post, other changes might happen too…
chad,
can you share the KCM to make lambert illumination and the one to diffuse ?
The diffusion is just the NParticlesAvg done one or more times to sample the emission and set it as the output.