Shadow rendering

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Shadow mapping nightmare

This entry was posted in GSoC Ogre and tagged Frustum Culling Shadow mapping Shadow maps Shadow rendering on September 3, 2013 by Matias

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, […]

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Putting Visibility Flags to a good use

This entry was posted in GSoC Ogre and tagged Shadow maps Shadow rendering Visibility Flags Visibility Layers on July 27, 2013 by Matias

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 […]

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