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Game developer fixes lightmapper bug caused by infinite sun brightness
Original: Testing my lightmapper with a sunny scene This didn't work at all at first because the sun disk is encoded as +inf which
A game developer working on an open-source lightmapping tool tested it with a sunny outdoor scene and found it failed completely. The problem was that the sun disk is encoded as positive infinity, which broke the lighting math, so they added a clamping feature to handle extreme values. The fix is being shared with the game development and indie developer community.
Why now: The developer shared a technical debugging story that resonates with other game developers working on rendering and lighting tools.
Evidence
- Testing my lightmapper with a sunny scene This didn't work at all at first because the sun disk is encoded as +inf which was not healthy for my lighting math, so I added a clamping feature # gamedev # indiedev # opensource # freesoftware · AminiAllight@mastodon.gamedev.place · 8
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