Renderer Wishlist

[ike709]

Dump things you'd like to see in a renderer rewrite below, because nobody else can be bothered to make an issue to track this.

[PJB3005]

Make it not suck thanks

[ike709]

Virtually everything BYOND can do

• Filters. Specifically I want to be able to apply drop shadows to everything except the floor to recreate TG's fake ambient occlusion
• Other filters like blur would be useful too probably.
• GetFlatIcon equivalent for photography and whatnot
• Planes, plane masters, & layers? Maybe? /shrug
• Various other visual effects that are possible in BYOND, like noir sunglasses making everything look black & white.
• Picture-in-picture viewport support, like BYOND vis contents
• Multi-z lighting/see lower level/shadows/etc
• Better support for particle effects? Not sure how good the current support is.

[ike709]

@moonheart08

[PJB3005]

Filters. Specifically I want to be able to apply drop shadows to everything except the floor to recreate TG's fake ambient occlusion

To be more clear here: we need a system for doing multiple stacked post processing shaders on a sprite. This is not how AO would be implemented since that's terrible for perf.

Picture-in-picture viewport support, like BYOND vis contents

We already have this

My own pile:

• Ability to use animated/directional sprites as shader input.

[moonheart08]

Filters. Specifically I want to be able to apply drop shadows to everything except the floor to recreate TG's fake ambient occlusion

To be more clear here: we need a system for doing multiple stacked post processing shaders on a sprite. This is not how AO would be implemented since that's terrible for perf.

Picture-in-picture viewport support, like BYOND vis contents

We already have this

My own pile:

* Ability to use animated/directional sprites as shader input.

AO would prolly be best as a filter over an entire plane?

[PJB3005]

I'm not even sure whether that would be the best way to go about it. I'd have to think about it I guess.