Soft Shadow Video

Bacon over at oasis games has released an updated video of the wicked Soft Shadowing in XNA with his Kaos engine. With water reflection and refraction, this new video is worth taking a second look.

I finally finished implementing soft shadows. It works by rendering the shadow stencil to a buffer and then blurring the buffer and drawing it to the screen. It is the same process used to render glowing textures.
Slight update: I was messing around the light to make it zoom in on the camera location, and it really improves the quality of the shadow maps. I will try and get a video up later, have to tinker with some Fraps settings.

Fixed a lot of problems in this one. Notice that the reflections + specular on bump mapped surfaces is now correct.

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Published:: 6.13.07 / 7am

Category:: All, XNA

Author:: Brecht Kets - Microsoft XNA MVP

Bacon @ Oasis-Games 6.15.07 / 11pm

Good to see that I’m being recognized.
Hopefully I’ll have something even better up by the end of the month. I have yet to implement multiple lights for shadows and just other general dynamic lighting.
After the lighting engine is done, I’m going to move over to particles, then I’ll try and get some simple clipping to keep the framerates high. Physics and control input will be the most important part of the project, but only as far is the game goes. For the engine, I’m going to need to do a lot of work on making things easily editable. I’m going to be writing up a cache + tag file system that will keep all assets together (and in a single file). Wow, I already more than filled up this textarea, I think I’ll end it there.

Brecht Kets 6.17.07 / 9am

Keep up the good work Bacon!

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