How to fake a perfectish sphere?
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I want to draw fake spheres in my game, eg a billboarded circle.
But I want it to look like it is 3d, for example when light shines on it I would get the appropiate shadows.
Is this possible?
thx
It might be worth having a look at the Blobs SDK example for this. Not sure about the shadows though.
Dave
Dave
Just making a mesh shaped like a sphere would probably work out just fine. You could even use D3DXCreateSphere if you're too lazy to actually write the code to generate one.
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
Another two options are:
1. Render a sphere to texture in the loading phase of your program.
2. Have a prerendered greyscale sphere as a texture, then colourise this in a shader and apply it to a billboard.
Dave
1. Render a sphere to texture in the loading phase of your program.
2. Have a prerendered greyscale sphere as a texture, then colourise this in a shader and apply it to a billboard.
Dave
You could get pixel-perfect dynamically shaded spheres using a rough mesh in concord with displacement mapping.
Regards
Admiral
Regards
Admiral
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