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lllab

12-19-2004, 05:55 PM

interactive open gl shadows are now available in formz 5 which is downloadable as demo.

this is definitly a feature i would like to see in cinema too!

i just tried with formz demo and it works realtime with shadows!
formz also has implemented a distributed rendering for stills, another thing i would wish for cinema.

but ogl shadows seems to be quite cool.

have a look uner www.formz.com (http://www.formz.com)

cheers
lllab

edit: also absolutely realtime with moving the lights, here on a cheap graphikcard! amazing
edit#2: it seems to work only with distant lights("sun") but with more than one light, with very complex modells it will take some good card i guess

JamesMK

12-19-2004, 06:03 PM

Oh, sweet! Realtime shadows is something I've really wanted for quite some time now.

rendermania

12-19-2004, 06:48 PM

Nothing fancy about realtime shadows... most games have them, so do various realtime authoring apps. You may need a pretty good card if the polycounts are very high, but there's various methods of doing it also (stencil buffer etc). Some faster than others.

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