Projective Texturing

Graphics and GPU Programming Programming DX11

Started by Telanor April 17, 2013 05:20 AM

5 comments, last by riuthamus 10 years, 11 months ago

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April 17, 2013 05:20 AM

I'm trying to implement projective texturing but I'm having some trouble getting it to a usable state. Right now it works but it projects to infinity (or more specifically, to the far plane). I can't just pull back the far plane because it could result in the texture being cut off on steep surfaces, and wouldn't solve the problem of projecting through surfaces. I've tried to mimic a sort of spotlight shadow technique but wasn't able to get that to work since there are pretty much no tutorials on shadows for deferred shading pipelines. So, my question: How do you get a projective texture to stop at the first surface it hits?

Edit: I forgot to add tags. I'm using DX11 & sharpdx

Ashaman73

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April 17, 2013 06:13 AM

I've tried to mimic a sort of spotlight shadow technique but wasn't able to get that to work since there are pretty much no tutorials on shadows for deferred shading pipelines.

I fear, that you need a shadow mapping approach to solve this problem.The benefit of projective textures is, that you often don't need a shadow mapping approach (which makes it a lot slower), therefor my first tip would be, to accept the artefact and restrict the projection range (quantity vs quality). You've already implemented CSM and point light shadows, the principle is all the same:

Reconstruct the point in camera space and reproject it into the projection (shadow camera) space, then get the shadow value, if it is in shadow, discard the pixel. If it is not in shadow, use the xy shadowmap coord to access the projection texture.

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Telanor

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April 17, 2013 06:36 AM

That's what I figured but I wasn't able to get it to work. It just considers everything to be out of the shadow.


float4 position = //bunch of code to reconstruct world space position from log depth

float4 decalPos = mul(position, DecalViewProjection);

float shadowDepth = ProjectorDepthMap.Sample(pointSampler, decalTexCoord.xy);

if(shadowDepth < decalPos.z / decalPos.w)
	discard;

VladR

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April 17, 2013 05:28 PM

I agree that a Shadow-Mapping approach for Projective texturing is easier to get up&running faster. Plus, you will then be able to reuse parts of the pipeline for other stuff.

Before we had SM HW, we had to do projective texturing manually and it is truly a PITA to implement correctly and generally enough.

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Telanor

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April 17, 2013 11:43 PM

I found part of the problem was from me using the ViewProjection matrix from the wrong camera but now there seems to be an issue with the sampling coordinates for the projection depth map being wrong.

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The projector camera is positioned approximately where the cursor is and is looking straight downwards. Ive changed the code from before slightly


float4 decalPos = mul(position, DecalViewProjection);
decalPos /= decalPos.w;
decalPos.xy = float2(decalPos.x, -decalPos.y) / 2.0f + 0.5f;

float shadowDepth = ProjectorDepthMap.Sample(pointSampler, decalPos.xy);

return float4(shadowDepth.rrr, 1);