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Posted 13 July 2014 - 10:36 AM

Hi!

I'm trying to include in my code something like is done here: http://seblagarde.wordpress.com/2012/06/10/amd-cubemapgen-for-physically-based-rendering/ for the irradiance map computation.

Now although my code is a bit different, it strongly resemble what is in the post I linked before. Or at least I think so.

The problem is that for the cubemap that is there as reference:

I obtain this result which is both different from the one in the site and also doesn't have the reddish hue that I was expecting:

I can post the code but is quite a lot. Is there evident what can be wrong?

What I'm doing is:

For each face

for each u,v

Compute direction vector for (u,v)

Get solid angle

Compute SH terms using  the "Y"s found on Stupid SH Tricks  (

Use these to project the above said vector in SH

                            for each u,v
....
SHTerms = getSHTerms(...);
for(int i=0; i<SHTerms.size(); i++){
projected.at(i) += RGB * SHTerms.at(i) * solidAngle;
}


Normalize each of these projected multiplying by 4*pi/sumSolidAngles

Then, with these projected values I get back to the env map using a formula like  projectedValue * SHTerm(i) * band(i) where i loops through the number of SH terms (the "Ys" )

These values are written back to the various cube faces and the result is the one posted above.

What can be wrong? Thank you very much.

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Posted 13 July 2014 - 12:40 PM

Are you using a Hdr version of that cubemap? The filter doesn't work with tonemapped data.

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Posted 13 July 2014 - 01:01 PM

Are you using a Hdr version of that cubemap? The filter doesn't work with tonemapped data.

No, I'm not using an HDR cubemap, but why it doesn't work? The AMD tool doesn't seem to make such limitations

Edited by jjtulip, 13 July 2014 - 01:12 PM.

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Posted 13 July 2014 - 02:36 PM

I don't know about the amd tool, but the source data must be HDR.

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Posted 13 July 2014 - 11:56 PM

Your irradiance calculation is a convolution with a cosine kernel over an entire hemisphere, and it essentially acts a low-pass filtering. So it's not unusual to "blur away" a lot of your details. With an HDR source it's possibly to have portions that are many many times brighter than other parts of the cubemap, which allows for certain features to come through more strongly in the filtered result. You should definitely try with an HDR source and see if you get results more inline with what you expect.

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Posted 14 July 2014 - 03:55 AM

Your irradiance calculation is a convolution with a cosine kernel over an entire hemisphere, and it essentially acts a low-pass filtering. So it's not unusual to "blur away" a lot of your details. With an HDR source it's possibly to have portions that are many many times brighter than other parts of the cubemap, which allows for certain features to come through more strongly in the filtered result. You should definitely try with an HDR source and see if you get results more inline with what you expect.

Thanks!

Well I tried with an hdr version of the same cubemap the result mantains the reddish hue, but my result is still very different from the one produced with the cubemapgen tool

Whereas the one presented in the above article is:

Now, the screenshot of my result has been taked from gDebugger so maybe the tonemapping is different (hence the texture is more dark, right?), but still the "shape" of the image is quite different

Edited by jjtulip, 14 July 2014 - 03:57 AM.

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