playcanvas / playcanvas/engine
Add support for IES profiles
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area: graphics
enhancement
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
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Description
Description
Add support for IES light profiles:
These are essentially just weights you can use in a shader and lookup the value based on the angle between the view point and the light, and can be used to create lights which correspond much more to real-world lightbulbs.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the engine's lighting and shader systems, then determine how light-profile data would be represented and loaded; done should include IES profiles producing the intended angle-dependent light response.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- computer-graphics, game-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100