Questions tagged [global-illumination]
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(Realtime-) Global Illumination starting point
What techniques should someone look at when getting into real time global illumination (for dynamic lighting scenarios)?
It's hard to get a real grip on the different mentioned techniques without knowing anything about the subject. If I wanted to…
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Light Propagation Volumes: Anisotropic filtering of volume data
I've implemented the Cascaded Light Propagation Volumes algorithm (no indirect shadowing yet) for real-time diffuse global illumination detailed here and here. It works fine but I'm still trying to fix one artifact in particular.
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Does a game engine affect the quality of pre-baked Global Illumination?
If I were to pre-bake Global Illumination into light maps using a high quality renderer like Mental Ray or PRman, and loaded it into two different engines such as Unity and Unreal, would there be a noticeable difference in quality?
If there is a…
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