hi all, i am trying to play a little with brdf lighting, so i've read a nice paper brought by nvidia, explaining a bit of the maths underneath this tecnique. I am a bit confused thou: when indexing the drdf textures the nvidia guy uses the light-ray/eye-ray in BTN coordinates space. Why is that? why can't i use the simple usual object space coordinates? thanks to you all... the G.

er, I'm not sure I understood what your problem was, and if I did, I don't think you understood quite well what a BRDF is...

I haven't read the paper you're reffering to, maybe they changed some stuff compared to the general BRDF concept. a BRDF defines how light will react when hitting a surface, and how much light will be reflected in every direction (the light distribution). all this happens in the surface coordinate space, relative to the surface itself, that is, in tangent space... object space hasn't got anything to do with it.