real time shadows in stalker...

[wizzackr]

i was watching these new trailers of stalker (which you can grab here BTW) and after the tech-demo with those nice real-time shadows i was wondering how these are rendered. as far as i know real-time raytracing is way off, so how do game-engines render such scenes so fast?

 

[sc4r4b]

Depth Map Shadows.

 

[lopoetve]

Same way Far Cry does

 

[daddybigwords]

i was watching these new trailers of stalker (which you can grab here BTW) and after the tech-demo with those nice real-time shadows i was wondering how these are rendered. as far as i know real-time raytracing is way off, so how do game-engines render such scenes so fast?

Here's one way: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cedec_stencil.html

Doesn't require any special hardware either, all you need is OpenGL and there's a software opengl driver included in recent versions of windows.

 

[Techx]

Here's one way: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cedec_stencil.html

Doesn't require any special hardware either, all you need is OpenGL and there's a software opengl driver included in recent versions of windows.

nice link, thanks much

 

[wizzackr]

Here's one way: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cedec_stencil.html

Doesn't require any special hardware either, all you need is OpenGL and there's a software opengl driver included in recent versions of windows.

thanks a bunch - great link