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Problems implementing a screen space shadow ray tracing shader

Here I previously asked for the possibility of ray tracing shadows in screen space in a deferred shader. Several problems were pointed out. One of the most important problem is that only visible ...
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Raycasting mouse coordinates to rotated object?

I am trying to cast a ray from my mouse to a plane at a specified position with a known width and length and height. I know that you can use the NDC (Normalized Device Coordinates) to cast ray but I ...
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OpenGL 3+ Range Picking

How do I perform range picking in the latest OpenGL version? By range picking I mean selecting all objects which are picked using a selection rectangle, like in an RTS game. For single object picking ...
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3d Picking under reticle

i'm currently trying to work out some 3d picking code that I started years ago, but then lost interested the assignment was completed (this part wasn't actually part of the assignment). I am not ...
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Optimized algorithm for line-sphere intersection in GLSL

Well, hello then! I need to find intersection between line and sphere in GLSL. Right now my solution is based on Paul Bourke's page and was ported to GLSL this way: // The line passes through p1 and ...
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Raymarching artifacts

I was playing with raymarching using distance fields in GLSL sandbox and got stuck with a strange problem with artifacts. Click here and take a look at the spheres generated in corners, they have ...
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Picking objects with mouse ray

I simply want to pick a few spheres in my scene using the mouse-ray. I have implemented(copied most of it but with little understanding) a ray-sphere collision code. Also I have implemented the code ...
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How does this snippet of code create a ray direction vector?

In the Minecraft source code, this code is used to create a direction vector for a ray from pitch and yaw:' float f1 = MathHelper.cos(-rotationYaw * 0.01745329F - 3.141593F); float f3 = ...