This is a simple, basic, lightweight, no-frills PBR render pipeline for Panda3D. It is currently intended to be used with panda3d-gltf, which will output textures in the right order. The PBR shader is heavily inspired by the Khronos glTF Sample Viewer. Note: this project does not make an attempt to match a reference renderer.
- Supports running on potatoes with an easy OpenGL 2.1+ requirement
- Forward rendered metal-rough PBR
- All Panda3D light types except ambient (point, directional, and spot)
- Filmic tonemapping
There are a few big things still missing and are planned to be implemented:
- Normals
- Shadow mapping
- Environment maps
The goal is to keep this simple and lightweight. As such, the following missing features are not currently on the roadmap:
- Something to deal with many lights (e.g., deferred, forward+, tiling, clustering, etc.)
- Fancy post-process effects (temporal anti-aliasing, ambient occlusion, screen-space reflections)
- Environment probes
Use pip to install the panda3d-simplepbr package:
pip install panda3d-simplepbrTo grab the latest development build, use:
pip install git+https://github.com/Moguri/panda3d-simplepbr.git
Just add simplepbr.init() to your ShowBase instance:
from direct.showbase.ShowBase import ShowBase
import simplepbr
class App(ShowBase):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
simplepbr.init()The init() function will choose typical defaults, but the following can be modified via keyword arguments:
render_node
: The node to attach the shader too, defaults to base.render if None
window
: The window to attach the framebuffer too, defaults to base.win if None
camera_node
: The NodePath of the camera to use when rendering the scene, defaults to base.cam if None
The shader currently assumes that the following textures are in these slots:
- BaseColor
- MetalRoughness
- Normals (not currently supported)
For an example application using panda3d-simplepbr check out the viewer in the panda3d-gltf repo.
python setup.py test