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Multiple render targets and gamma correctness in Direct3D9
Let's say in a deferred renderer when building your G-Buffer you're going to render texture color, normals, depth and whatever else to your multiple render targets at once.
Now if you want to have a ...
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How can I render the whole faces instead of only the vertices? [closed]
I'm doing my master thesis in comparing DX9 LoD with DX11 Tesselation LoD. Therefore I use a ShaderManager that calls either the shader for the DX9 implementation, where the model is exchanged by the ...
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Rendering an object more than once
Right now I'm facing the issue of rendering the same objects more than once in Directx 11, as the object has:
A diffuse shader
A directional lighting shader
A texture shader
Now the final color ...
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How do I render a filled and stroked path using OpenGL?
I want to render a 2-dimensional geometric path consisting of Bézier curves and straight lines. Paths can be concave.
What is the most efficient way to draw this using modern OpenGL? Can I do this ...
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How can I acheive a smooth 2D lighting effect?
I'm making a tile based game in XNA.
So currently my lightning looks like this:
How can I get it to look like this?
Instead of each block having its own tint, it has a smooth overlay.
I'm assuming ...
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Only apply Advanced Graphics on high FPS Dynamically
I wonder why not prevent lags by only appying advanced optional graphics stuff when the FPS are high at time. So The game could use simpler or even no shaders and skip decorative models some time.
It ...
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outline object effect
How can I achieve an outline effect similar to the ones found in League of Legends or Diablo III?
Is it done using a shader? How?
I would prefer answers that are not tied up to any particular ...
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How to reproduce the 3ds Max Gradient Ramp effect?
The material definition of a mesh is composed of these three components: Self-Illumunation, Refletcion and Refraction. Each of these components has a Gradient Ramp as a map and the mapping mode is set ...
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Intercepting DirectX calls and optimizing the overal performance of games
I would like to use a DirectX proxy dll to intercept (and possibly optimize) the graphics calls being made by normal PC games. I am going to "screen cast" a game with ffmpeg or something similar and ...
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Complex shading using one single (small) texture
Recently I stumbled upon a demo reel in UDK about how one can attain beautiful results using just one (rather tiny) texture that's being sent to the shader pipeline. The famous link is this one.
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How to render realistic ice?
I am trying to write an ice shader in Unity that looks good and at least semi-realistic.
If the following shot (found on Google) was CG, what would its shader include? (the foreground cave). I might ...
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Why is antialiasing dependent on sampling?
I am thinking about the best ways to render two dimensional objects in the highest detail possible using modern graphics technology and it occurred to me that when I simplify a situation enough, I ...
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DirectX11, how do I manage and update multiple shader constant buffers?
Alright, I'm having a hard time grasping how constant buffers are bound to a pipeline stage and updated. I understand that DirectX11 can have up to 15 shader-constant buffers per stage and each buffer ...
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Does OGRE do hardware skinning by default?
I am trying to understand how OGRE works at a lower level, and from what I have read so far, I believe OGRE generates shaders from material scripts using its RTShader system, on the loading of each ...
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Multiple Render Targets not saving data
I originally posted this question on stack overflow, but realised it might be better here. The original question can be found here
I'm using SlimDX, targeting DirectX 11 with shader model 4. I have a ...
