Dark spaces cast by the presence of a solid object blocking the flow of light. Often helpful for telling where your character is going to land.
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Modern shadow rendering techniques?
What is the state of the art in terms of shadow rendering? My target is OpenGL 3.2, using a deferred rendering pipeline, if that matters.
It's been years since I looked into shadow rendering, and at ...
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Unity3D custom camera matrix breaking shadows/lights in deferred rendering
EDIT 1:
So it seems this is a common issue with Unity, and it comes from a bug in which custom camera matrices break deferred lighting and shadows. This topic right here talks about it a bit, but the ...
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front and back face detection
I am trying to implement a dynamic shadow system for a 2d game using this tutorial :
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Game Engine for quick Horror Survival prototype [closed]
for a University project we need to develop a prototype for a Survival Horror game using an engine of our own choice. We are currently preparing the project and wondering which engine to use. Maybe ...
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Isn't it redundant to implement both lights and shadows?
Most games come up with their lighting implementation and their shadow implementation. Due to deferred shading, we are able to simulate lights independent from the scene geometry. But realistic ...
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Shadow artifacts caused by filtering
I'm working on a shadow-mapping implementation for an OpenGLES 2.0 environment (Stage3D in Flash to be exact). This is how my current implementation works:
Render the scene to backbuffer.
Render ...
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How to transform a shadow map to camera view?
I'm making a rendering engine as a hobby to learn more about 3D. I have a deferred renderer with the G-buffer (color, normal and depth). I also have a lighting controller that uses only spotlights at ...
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A big light with shadows
To have better texture2D quality in my 2D game, I had to recreate every textures with 300% of their original size.
But the lights have to bright 3 times more.
For lights, I'm using this : Catalin's ...
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GLSL light coloring blocked surfaces
I have created a very simple lighting shader. It currently only supports point lights, but it lights up surfaces that are completely blocked from the light. I know why, but I want to know how I can ...
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How to create 2D shadows
Could help about creating lighting and shadows in a 2D environment, like the image below.
http://i.stack.imgur.com/0FEQz.gif
I did several searches but got no results
( ps: sorry my bad english i'm ...
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How to do geometric projection shadows?
I have decided that since my game world is mostly flat I don't need better shadows than geometric projections - at least for now.
The only problem is I don't even know how to do those properly - that ...
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Problems implementing a screen space shadow ray tracing shader
Here I previously asked for the possibility of ray tracing shadows in screen space in a deferred shader. Several problems were pointed out. One of the most important problem is that only visible ...
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Ray Tracing Shadows in deferred rendering
Recently I have programmed a raytracer for fun and found it beutifully simple how shadows are created compared to a rasterizer. Now, I couldn't help but I think if it would be possible to implement ...
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forward rendering and multiple shadow maps
I have two light sources on my scene. I created two fbo's which store depth textures for these lights. A render loop looks like this:
bind fbo1
save depth values for first light
unbind fbo1
bind ...
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Shadow mapping: what is the light looking at?
I'm all set to set up shadow mapping in my 3d engine but there is one thing I am struggling to understand. The scene needs to be rendered from the light's point of view so I simply first move my ...
