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AppGameKit Classic Chat / Volume Shadows for point lights possible for Windows?

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PSY
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Posted: 28th Nov 2017 18:10
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Would it be theoretically possible to implement volume shadows for the Windows platform, so point lights could be used for shadow casting, too?


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Posted: 28th Nov 2017 23:02 Edited at: 28th Nov 2017 23:09
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Without tricks it's currently not possible to create point-light shadows.
As said in several threads we need some kind of viewpoint-independent-environment-mapping like cube-mapping to implement proper point-light shadows.
But theoretically they are possible in AGK: you still can create your own environment-mapping but that will probably be very performance heavy on top of the depth comparisons for the shadows.

Spotlights are much easier.
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Posted: 29th Nov 2017 06:03
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Okay,

Thank you for the clarification.

I'd go with spotlights, but I can only get shadows from 1 light source, aka the sun, right?


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Posted: 29th Nov 2017 20:20
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Quote: "I'd go with spotlights, but I can only get shadows from 1 light source, aka the sun, right?"

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Posted: 29th Nov 2017 23:41
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Thank you.
Gonna put the project on ice then, at least until I know whether point or spot light shadows will be implemented in the future or not


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