Simple Shadows

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Started by Juicy December 03, 2002 03:12 PM

5 comments, last by Juicy 21 years, 4 months ago

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December 03, 2002 03:12 PM

I understand the principal behind creating primitive shadows onto a flat surface. A trivial case of projecting the model (whatever that might be), from the light source to the flat surface (in my case, really simple, the plane the shadow will be cast on is on the horizontal at y=0). So, knowing the principal, you''d think it''d be easy to implement, but I''m completely confused. Can anyone help?

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RipTorn

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December 03, 2002 07:54 PM

glScalef(1,0,1);

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llvllatrix

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December 04, 2002 12:16 AM

Could always do it realistically, and easily. They talk about this effect in the red book. Basically you take screenshots of your image with each individual light activated. Then you blend the images in the accumulation buffer and you''re done. These are called soft shadows. Only problem is that they are slow

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DarkKiller

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December 04, 2002 02:40 AM

@RipTorn: Scaling the model to 1,0,1 would generate a totaly flat model. Drawing this model on the groung at 0,0,0 would generate a good shadow under the 1,1,1 model. Is this what you do?

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vincoof

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December 04, 2002 05:18 AM

RipTorn: what you do is correct, but for directional light that comes from the Y axis only. Though that shows the technique.

Mark J. Kilgard wrote something about planar shadows and I found it again at opengl.org at this page. Also he wrote something about volumetric stencil shadows (at opengl.org too) at this page. Check them out !

[edited by - vincoof on December 4, 2002 6:21:00 AM]