I just have a question about creating realistic shadows. I''ve got a model system that works really well. I load my model vertices and when I draw them, I send the model space coordinates to a vertex shader where the untransformed model coordinate is transformed into world space, and then into view space. My question is, is it possible to compute shadows in any manner using this type of system? My world is going to be positioned at 0,0,0 and all coordinates in the world will of course be in world space already. But, if I''m computing how a model casts a shadow into the world, and onto itself, wouldn''t I need the transformed world space coordinates of the model''s vertices? This wouldn''t work with my system unless I somehow get the transformed coordinates (which sort of defeats the purpose of the shader) I was thinking, however, that it might be possible to compute a sort of 3-d silhouette of my model using 3 planar meshes and simply transform that into world space each frame and somehow compute shadows from that. Think something like that would work? Does anyone know if something like this has been done before?(I need something to write my undergraduate thesis on) I can''t find too much info on advanced shadow algorithms. I read through the stencil volume shadow thing on this site.