What is the use of Point Mode?

FlynT

Hey all a question that i ask myself for quite a while now is, what is the purpose of Point Rendering? Is it a representation of Vertices or some sort of Debug visualisation?



Thanks for any light you can shed upon this mystery :icon3:

JamesWild

Does it actually work in the latest build for you? I don't know exactly what it's for either (presumably visualizing vertex density to identify heavy objects in the scene) but since the build before enabling it breaks the normal G buffer, preventing further updates and leaving a "print" of the normals where the camera was previously, performing lighting and other effects using those normals instead of those of the scene, looks weird underwater.

AlexCatMasterSupreme

Didn't you mean to ask "What's the point!" ?

MeintevdS

Point mode: This option turns on the point mode, it turns off almost all rendering features so editing particles can be done quicker.

That's what I found on their wiki, never used it myself so can't give you more info than just that.

tristamus

OH jeez, this woulda been good to know a while ago >D Sweet feature, actually, considering that layering particles on top of each other in CE can kill many computers.

FlynT

@ James: It seems to work fine for me, no matter that the "new" green background hurts my eyes!

@ Alex: Would be indeed the better title

@ MeintevdS: Thanks for pointing it out, next time i should dig a bit deeper into the wiki.

@ tristamus: Valuable informations often come to late

Thanks again guys!