In Ogre 1.x; each Entity has it’s own list of lights, sorted by proximity. This way, when rendering, each Entity sends to the shader the closest N lights and, given enough batches, 8 lights per batch would be enough to lit the whole scene. That’s in theory at least. Until […]
Originally, my idea of an elegant method of rendering a scene with shadow maps resulted to be flawed: That looked perfect until I stumbled with the problem that shadow maps’ directional lights need bound data from the original scene (namely an aabb enclosing all visible objects by the viewer’s camera, […]
There’s a lot of memory waste in a MovableObject, just to name a few: The first two take 2 bytes per and cause lots of branches and cache misses (if visible && getCastShadows…), and the third one while it doesn’t take extra ram, it’s a nasty call stack of virtual […]