> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Nov 29 21:56:58 1999
> Hi everybody,
>
> I've been needing to produce non-realtime high quality output from
> OpenGL programs I've already written. As a result, I'm adding Phong shading to
> Mesa. I'd like to do this right, though, so that it can be a standard part of
> the distribution. Granted, it won't fit into the standard OpenGL architecture,
> but I think it would be worth having =).
Actually, a form of it does. See below.
> Anyway, here's my plans. Please let me know if anything is off so I
> can do this right the first time:
>
> o Define GL_PHONG in gl.h as 0x1D02. Currently unused, immediately
> precedes GL_SMOOTH.
You might be better off incorporating SGI's fragment lighting
extension into Mesa. Go to
http://www.opengl.org/Documentation/Extensions.html for the spec
("EXT_fragment_lighting"). Maybe contact Jon Leech at SGI
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to ask about whether SGI would care or even help.
(While you're at it, put in EXT_light_texture, too. :)
Fragment lighting adds another set of lights which work on the
fragment (i.e. pixel) level and have slightly different semantics.
This is presumably better suited for hardware implementations. (I
understand you may want to short-circuit this to get to helping your
program.)
Actually, it might be fun for me to help you do this. Want to talk
about it offline?
-Brad
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Brad Grantham, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://alt.net/~grantham
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