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FAST position reconstruction from depth

I'm struggling a lot with reconstructing the world space position (or alternatively the view space position) from depth (by reading the depth buffer) in a performant way (in a full-screen post-process)...
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Best practices for treating Light Volumes in Deferred Lighting pipeline

This topic is about ways to handle light volumes in a deferred lighting pipeline. I currently have a deferred lighting pipeline where spheres are sent to an openGL GLSL lighting shader. The sphere ...
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unsmooth blending with deferred shading and light volumes

So I implemented deferred Shading with a single full screen light pass (picture 2) (by passing the light-data as an array to the shader) and deferred shading with point light volumes (picture 1) (by ...
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Blank texture in Frame Buffer Object in Deferred Rendering

I'm running the tutorial 35 from olgdev.atspace.co.uk, and it's so strange that the result is a blank screen. This tutorial is performing the first step of Deferred Shading, which means decoupling of ...
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OpenGL deferred rendering, multiple FBO targets

so for a game I am developing I am giving a go at deferred shading. I have only implemented entity rendering and an initial deferred shader and rendering the scene using OpenGLs FBO multiple render ...
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Deferred Rendering With Diffuse,Specular, and Normal maps

I have been reading up on deferred rendering and I am trying to implement a renderer using the Sponza atrium model, which can be found here, as my sandbox.Note I am also using OpenGL 3.3 and GLSL. I ...
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Separate shader programs or branch in shader? [duplicate]

I have a bunch of point lights and directional lights. Instead of checking the light type in the fragment shader and then branch for either point light calculation or directional light calculation, is ...
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Would I perform one pass per effect in Deferred Shading?

I'm implementing deferred shading the first time. Doing so I came up with a conceptual question. First I render the geometry in a framebuffer with muptiple rendering targets for depth, normals, and ...