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[ChrisMelling]

Currently using a point light shader that fits my game perfect but It would be nice It I could have more than 1 point light on the scene at one time. I've tired to look at other examples at how they do it but none seem to look anything like my shader, so some advice would be appreciated!

Here is the shader I'm using now.

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// File: ParallaxMapPointLight.fx
// Author: Chris Smith
// Date Created: 12/17/06
// Description: Renders a scene with parallax mapping from a point light
// Disclaimer: Use this however you want, but I am not responsible for anything
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
float4x4 WorldViewProj; //World * View * Projection Matrix
float4x4 World;		 //World matrix of object
float4 EyePos;		  //Position of eye in world space
float4 LightPos;	    //Light position in world space
float4 LightColor;	  //Color of the light
texture ColorMap;	   //Color texture
texture NormalMap;	  //Normal map texture
texture HeightMap;	  //Height map texture
float Falloff;		  // Distance until light begins to falloff
float Ambient;		  // Ambient amount of lighting
float DepthScale = 0.04f; //Depth of the parallax map
float Bias = 0.02f;	   //Bias of the parallax map
float scale;
sampler colorSampler = sampler_state
{
	 Texture = (ColorMap);
    MIPFILTER = LINEAR;
    MAGFILTER = LINEAR;
    MINFILTER = LINEAR;
};
sampler normalSampler = sampler_state
{
    Texture = (NormalMap);
   MIPFILTER = LINEAR;
   MAGFILTER = LINEAR;
   MINFILTER = LINEAR;
};
sampler heightSampler = sampler_state
{
    Texture = (HeightMap);
   MIPFILTER = LINEAR;
   MAGFILTER = LINEAR;
   MINFILTER = LINEAR;
};
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//Structures
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//Application to vertex shader
struct A2V
{
	 float4 Position : POSITION;
	 float3 Normal : NORMAL;
	 float2 TexCoord0 : TEXCOORD0;
	 float3 Tangent : TANGENT;
	 float3 Binormal : BINORMAL;
};
//Vertex shader to pixel shader
struct V2P
{
	 float4 Position : POSITION;
	 float2 TexCoord0 : TEXCOORD0;
	 float3 LightDir : TEXCOORD1;
	 float3 ViewDir : TEXCOORD2;
};
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//Vertex Shader
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
void VS( in A2V IN, out V2P OUT )
{
IN.Position.xyz *= scale;
    //Transform the position from view space to homogeneous projection space
    OUT.Position = mul(IN.Position, WorldViewProj);
    //Compute world space position
    float4 WorldPos = mul(IN.Position, World);
   
    //Calculate Binormal and set Tangent Binormal and Normal matrix
    float3x3 TBNMatrix = mul(float3x3(IN.Binormal, IN.Tangent , IN.Normal), (float3x3)World);
    //Compute light direction
    OUT.LightDir = LightPos - WorldPos;
    //Compute light direction * TBN Matrix
    OUT.LightDir = mul(TBNMatrix, OUT.LightDir);
   
    //Compute view direction * TBN Matrix
    OUT.ViewDir = mul(TBNMatrix, EyePos - WorldPos);

    //Copy the texture coordinate as is
    OUT.TexCoord0 = IN.TexCoord0;
}
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//Pixel Shader
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
float4 PS( in V2P IN ) : COLOR0
{
    IN.ViewDir = normalize(IN.ViewDir);
   
    //Determine the height of this pixel
    float Height = DepthScale * tex2D(heightSampler, IN.TexCoord0) - Bias;
	   
    //Compute the new texture coorddinate to use
    float2 TexCorrected  = Height * IN.ViewDir + IN.TexCoord0;
   
    //calculate the color and the normal
    float4 Color = tex2D(colorSampler, TexCorrected);
    //Uncompress the normal map
    float3 Normal = 2.0f * tex2D(normalSampler, TexCorrected).rgb - 1.0f;
    //Pixel to light vector
    float LenSq = dot( IN.LightDir, IN.LightDir );
    IN.LightDir = normalize( IN.LightDir );
	   
    //Compute the light's attenuation
    float Attn = min(( Falloff * Falloff ) / LenSq, 1.0f);
    //Compute the diffuse lighting amount
    float Diffuse = Attn * saturate(dot(Normal, IN.LightDir));
    //Lighting amount * Texture Color * Light Color
    return Color =  (Diffuse + Ambient)  * Color * LightColor;
}
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//Technique
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
technique ParallaxMapPointLight
{
    pass p0
    {
	    vertexshader = compile vs_2_0 VS();
	    pixelshader = compile ps_2_0 PS();
    }
}

[jischneider]

This is an old problem that has many solutions. Some are:

• Let’s say that you know the engine needs in several scenarios three point lights and one point light in others. You could implement a technique for three point lights and one for one point light and you switch to whatever you need.
• I think Unreal uses a multi pass shader. I suppose they use additive blending.
• Deferred renderers. My favorite!!! You can render the points lights you need. 100? Ok, you have it and with a very good performance. The problem is that you have to re implement all your pipeline

If you only ask how to add the second point light to your shader, just calculate a second LightDir in your vertex shader (with the second point light position) and add the diffuse result of the second light to the diffuse result of the first.

And try to work in linear space: http://http.develope...gems3_ch24.html

Bye!!!