Dark spaces cast by the presence of a solid object blocking the flow of light. Often helpful for telling where your character is going to land.
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How can I change this isometric engine to make it so that you could distinguish between blocks that are on different planes?
I have been working on an isometric minecraft-esque game engine for a strategy game I plan on making. As you can see, it really needs some sort of shading. It is difficult to distinguish between ...
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Point Light Soft Shadows
How to implement soft shadows for omni directional (point) light. We use typical shadow mapping technique. Depth is rendered to texture cube and addresing is pretty simple then. Just using vector from ...
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What rendering techniques would I use to draw a drop shadow effect for cards in a card game?
What type of shading algorithm might be used to create shadows like these?
the one I'm making is similar but it is all done with a 2D drawing API powered by OpenGL so there is no Z coordinate.
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