Day 6 - Material, Multiple types of lights

Feb 5, 2025

Material

I did not dare to abstract the material property for my render pipeline. The most I did was simply a builder pattern for TextureLoader

auto containerTexture = TextureLoader()
                              .from_path("textures/container2.png")
                              .set_wrap_s(Wrap::REPEAT)
                              .set_wrap_t(Wrap::REPEAT)
                              .set_min_filter(MinFilter::LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR)
                              .set_mag_filter(MagFilter::NEAREST)
                              .load();

Not only does texture “put image on the object”, but we can also sample the texture to get specular and diffuse maps.

That looks really cool to me.

Multiple lighting

We implemented 3 types of lighting

1. Pointlight - Distance matters
2. Directional Light - All rays are parallel
3. Spotlight - Pointlight with cutoff

I like spotlight the most. It’s like a flashlight.

And yeah, that was pretty much it for today.