i want to use your engine as a base to mine

[zenux-dev]

hi,
i wanna make a ray tracing plugin to a game engine called godot iam not one of the gme engine's devs or smth just a user soo i wanna use your engine as a base to mine i will add alot more features and optimizations to it so it works perfectly with a game and the plugin will be completely free and open source after making everything in python i will translate them to gdnative to make the plugin i just want to take permission from you for using it and your name will be mentioned in the vreators page of the plug in,
thnx in advance zenux

[rafael-fuente]

Hi!
There is no problem with using and modifying this ray tracer in your project; just cite this repository.
Best wishes for your project, and keep me updated about it!

[zenux-dev]

thnx alot and sure i will keep you updated about it

[zenux-dev]

hi i was wondering is there a way to read obj or fbx files to be putten in scene instead of basic ones using scripting or smt?

[rafael-fuente]

I already have implemented a class named TriangleMesh to load arbitrary .obj files as triangle meshes.

However, the rendering is quite slow because we need to loop for every triangle of the mesh, and Python loops are very slow. A bounding volume hierarchy acceleration structure could be implemented, but I think renders will still take a lot of time.

If you want to render arbitrary triangle meshes, Python isn't the language to work with.

I worked some time ago in making a very similar Python interface to the C++ Ray Tracing in one-weekend project. I didn't implement an obj loader, but it shouldn't take a lot of work. The raytracer can already quickly render complex scenes with a very similar scene scripting language to this raytracer written in pure Python.
I can share the project with you if you want. However, you should be proficient in C++ to be able to modify it.

[zenux-dev]

oh ok iam not fammiliar with c++ but i gotta learn it cause godot's plugins should be made with c++ to work fast and even to work soo ya thnx alot again