Details

Subject(s)

• Video games—Design [Browse]
• Video games—Programming [Browse]

Author

• Assarsson, Ulf [Browse]
• Schwarz, Michael [Browse]
• Wimmer, Michael [Browse]

Summary note

Important elements of games, movies, and other computer-generated content, shadows are crucial for enhancing realism and providing important visual cues. In recent years, there have been notable improvements in visual quality and speed, making high-quality realistic real-time shadows a reachable goal. Real-Time Shadows is a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of real-time shadow techniques. It covers a large variety of different effects, including hard, soft, volumetric, and semi-transparent shadows.The book explains the basics as well as many advanced aspects related to the domain

Notes

An A.K. Peters book.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Front cover; Dedication; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1. Introduction; CHAPTER 2. Basic Shadow Techniques; CHAPTER 3. Shadow-Map Aliasing; CHAPTER 4. Shadow-Map Sampling; CHAPTER 5. Filtered Hard Shadows; CHAPTER 6. Image-Based Soft-Shadow Methods; CHAPTER 7. Geometry-Based Soft-Shadow Methods; CHAPTER 8. Image-Based Transparency; CHAPTER 9. Volumetric Shadows; CHAPTER 10. Advanced Shadow Topics; CHAPTER 11. Conclusion; APPENDIX A. Down the Graphics Pipeline; APPENDIX B. Brief Guide to Graphics APIs; APPENDIX C. A Word on Shading; APPENDIX D. Fast GPU Filtering Techniques
• APPENDIX E. More For Less: Deferred Shading and UpsamplingAPPENDIX F. Symbols; Bibliography; Index; Back cover

ISBN

• 9780429104695
• 0429104693
• 9781439867693
• 1439867690

OCLC

• 759865965
• 992448840

Doi

• 10.1201/b11030

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