Using GL_RG16I texture for the hit coordinates increase tremendously the precision of the hit.
The sign of the integer is used to 2 flags (has_hit and is_planar).
We do not store the depth and retrieve it from the depth buffer (increasing bandwith by +8bit/px).
The PDF is stored into another GL_R16F texture.
We remove the raycount for simplicity and to reduce compilation time (less branching in refraction shader).
There was noise correlation between the rotation random number and the radius random number used in the contact shadow algo.
Hacking a new distribution from the old distribution (may not be ideal because it's discrepency may be high)
Also distribute samples evenly on the shadow disc. (add sqrt)
Fix the "bias floating shadows", was cause by the discarding of backfacing geom which makes no sense in this case.
The problem was that orthographic views can have hit position that are negative. Thus we cannot encode the hit in the sign of the Z component.
The workaround is to store the hit position in screenspace. But since we are using floating point render target, we are loosing quite a bit of precision.
TODO: use RGBA16 instead of RGBA16F. But that means encoding the pdf value somehow.
This fix a bug when occluder are on the edge of the screen and occludes more than they should.
Grouped the texture fetches together and clamp the ray at the border of the screen.
Also add a few util functions.
For the moment the only way to enable this is to:
- enable Screen Space REFLECTIONS.
- enable Screen Space Refraction in the SSR parameters.
- enable Screen Space Refraction in the material tab.
