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Using Ogre particle point billboards with shaders

I'm learning about using Ogre particles and had some questions about how the point type particles work. Q. I believe point type particles are implemented as a single position. Is one single vertex is ...
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Calculating distance from viewer to object in a shader

Good morning, I'm working through creating the spherical billboards technique outlined in this paper. I'm trying to create a shader that calculates the distance from the camera to all objects in the ...
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Early Z culling - Ogre

For Ogre experienced people, but also experts in the field: Early Z culling is sometimes quite desirable, and that's what I tried to do in Ogre by using a two pass material. The first one is writing ...
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Normal maps in 3dsMax - OgreMax - how to view associated tangent vectors?

Reading this post I found out that 3dsMax might not use the same tangents when rendering normal mapped objects. In my case, I was using Ogre and OgreMax to analyze results and they were very ...
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Reflections based on distance from plane

Let's consider, for example, a surface like the volleyball court, we can see that legs and shoes of the players are reflected, with a blur effect, but body and stadium don't (as each object not near ...
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Does OGRE do hardware skinning by default?

I am trying to understand how OGRE works at a lower level, and from what I have read so far, I believe OGRE generates shaders from material scripts using its RTShader system, on the loading of each ...