d3d9.dllComputeVolumeSamplesDirectSH
Microsoft DirectX 9.0 SDK Update (October 2004)

ID3DXPRTEngine::ComputeVolumeSamplesDirectSH Method


Computes a projection of distant lighting into spherical harmonic (SH) basis vectors that represent incident radiance at specified locations.

Syntax

HRESULT ComputeVolumeSamplesDirectSH(      

    UINT OrderIn,     UINT OrderOut,     UINT NumVolSamples,     const D3DXVECTOR3 *pSampleLocs,     LPD3DXPRTBUFFER pDataOut );

Parameters

OrderIn
[in] Order of the SH representation of distant lighting. Must be in the range of D3DXSH_MINORDER to D3DXSH_MAXORDER, inclusive. The degree of the evaluation is OrderIn - 1.
OrderOut
[in] Order of the SH representation of local lighting. Must be in the range of D3DXSH_MINORDER to D3DXSH_MAXORDER, inclusive. The degree of the evaluation is OrderOut - 1.
NumVolSamples
[in] Number of sample locations.
pSampleLocs
[in] Position for each sample.
pDataOut
[in, out] Pointer to an output ID3DXPRTBuffer object that projects the distant lighting into SH basis vectors. This buffer must have the proper number of color channels allocated for the simulation. This method generates OrderIn2 * OrderOut2 scalars per channel at each sample location.

Return Value

If the method succeeds, the return value is D3D_OK.

If the method fails, the return value can be one of the following:

D3DERR_INVALIDCALLThe method call is invalid. For example, a method's parameter may have an invalid value.
E_OUTOFMEMORYMicrosoft Direct3D could not allocate sufficient memory to complete the call.


Remarks

This method computes how light from a distant source arrives at each point in space specified by pSampleLocs. The SH coefficients represent the mapping, at each pSampleLocs point, of source radiance to transferred incident radiance.

To use this method successfully, you must set sampling over a sphere with UseSphere = TRUE and UseCosine = FALSE in ID3DXPRTEngine::SetSamplingInfo; otherwise, this method will return an error with D3DERR_INVALIDCALL.

See Also

ID3DXPRTEngine::ComputeVolumeSamples


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