Occluder Support

[dpogue]

Occluders are geometry that block the rendering of objects fully behind them. This allows for render optimization without needing to manually set up visregions on all the objects.

The goal is adding a modifier to korman to mark an object (usually a plane or series of planes) as an occluder, and the associated export code to generate the plOccluder object. The python bindings already exist in PyHSPlasma, but may need updating.

Tasks:

• Create a new korman modifier to mark an object as an occluder.
  • Put it with the rest of the rendering-related modifiers?
  • I don't think it needs any options? I guess it allows a list of visregions, but that might be overkill in a first version
• Set up export code to take each face of the object and construct a plCullPoly for it