Baking objects into pointclouds

Pointclouds and brickmaps can improve the render performance greatly since they “bake” a 3d model with any shader data that is needed for the render just once, and can be used over and over again. In some cases the original model doesn’t even have to be used for the render, brickmap which is free...

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Fake SSS

This is a shader which fakes the sub surface scattering effect in RenderMan efficiently.

Here is the algorithm for the shader:

  1. Before anything else, backup the point and normal attributes of the surface, and set the opacity
  2. Setup the reflections t...
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