--- ray/doc/man/man1/rtpict.1 2022/03/16 00:06:08 1.9 +++ ray/doc/man/man1/rtpict.1 2023/01/05 19:25:21 1.12 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" RCSid "$Id: rtpict.1,v 1.9 2022/03/16 00:06:08 greg Exp $" +.\" RCSid "$Id: rtpict.1,v 1.12 2023/01/05 19:25:21 greg Exp $" .TH RTPICT 1 3/19/2018 RADIANCE .SH NAME rtpict - generate a RADIANCE picture or layered image using rtrace @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ option should be used to assign the reference (median) units, which applies to the overall scene. Surface normals (from the 'n' and 'N' types) will be converted to a 32-bit representation by -.I rcode_normal(1). +.I rcode_norm(1). Finally, identifiers (from the 's', 'm', and 'M' types) will be converted to a 16-bit index format by .I rcode_ident(1). @@ -109,28 +109,9 @@ rtpict -n 4 -vf mypers.vf -ab 1 -af scene.amb scene.oc To render radiance, first surface distance, and normals in a layered image: .IP "" .2i rtpict -n 8 -vf fish.vf @render.opt -ovLn fisholay scene.oct -.SH NOTES -Users should seriously consider using -.I rpiece(1) -when irradiance caching is employed with a shared ambient file. -If -.I rtpict -is used in multiprocessing mode with a shared irradiance cache, -it is trying to compute almost -the same part of the same scanline in different processes, which -results in many redundant calculations. -The -.I rpiece -program avoids this by working on separate tiles in each -process, with less overlap in the indirect irradiance calculation. -Either program will benefit from an "overture" run of a -single-process rpict to create the ambient file using a low-resolution -rendering that is discarded, but this will not completely solve the -problem for -.I rtpict. .SH AUTHOR Greg Ward .SH "SEE ALSO" getinfo(1), mkpmap(1), oconv(1), pfilt(1), -pvalue(1), rad(1), rcode_depth(1), rcode_normal(1), rcode_ident(1), +pvalue(1), rad(1), rcode_depth(1), rcode_norm(1), rcode_ident(1), rcrop(1), rpiece(1), rpict(1), rsplit(1), rtrace(1), rvu(1), vwrays(1)