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Hi,
I'm making a flight simulator type thing, and I want the planes to have shadows. I tried to reverse engineer NeHe 27, but only the .exe ran, and I couldn't get the program to work otherwise. I program in Python, so any code in Python is more useful. What would be great is a Python version of something like NeHe 27 or at least the key function calls. Thanks,
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NeHe's 27 lesson - Shadow Volumes - it's old approach, they are quite useless, try Shadow Mapping (very good technique, it's very useful, but it has few disadvantages).
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I'm working from:
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~ghali/courses/texts/redbook/html/09-10-shadowmap.c.html
which I translated into Python, but the glDrawPixels() call is really really slow. Why?
G
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~ghali/courses/texts/redbook/html/09-10-shadowmap.c.html
which I translated into Python, but the glDrawPixels() call is really really slow. Why?
G
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I think I'm onto something with this other tutorial:
http://www.paulsprojects.net/tutorials/smt/smt.html
I've translated it from the C++ it's in to Python. I think that these lines don't work:I see the torus and the spheres, but no shadow. I commented them out because I can't get the extensions. How would one do it without the extensions?
http://www.paulsprojects.net/tutorials/smt/smt.html
I've translated it from the C++ it's in to Python. I think that these lines don't work:
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_COMPARE_MODE_ARB, GL_COMPARE_R_TO_TEXTURE)glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_COMPARE_FUNC_ARB, GL_LEQUAL)glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_DEPTH_TEXTURE_MODE_ARB, GL_INTENSITY)
Try setting up shaders. Because the methods using fixed function pipeline is both confusing and slow because you draw the scene 3 times. If you do a shader, it will only require 1 draw.
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I'm definitely willing to consider that.
A few problems, though:
a) I've never used shaders; I know nothing about them--not how to get them, how to program them, set them up, etc.
b) I'll need a tutorial.
Given that, I think that shaders would be good if they only require 1 pass.
A few problems, though:
a) I've never used shaders; I know nothing about them--not how to get them, how to program them, set them up, etc.
b) I'll need a tutorial.
Given that, I think that shaders would be good if they only require 1 pass.
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