Help with lighting | GameDev.net

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Dec 21, 2004 at 1:29 PM

well im trying to understand light better but some parts are extremely confusing. Does anyone know a good site that starts off from the basic parts and by the end has stuff with spot lights, and shadows, stuff like that? any help would be great thx jake

Alex Baker

Dec 24, 2004 at 4:51 PM

hi,

perhaps you may want to have a look at developer.nvidia.com; there are ton's of documents to all topics regarding 3D development, for GL and DX.
There is also a PDF on the site, which explains all the math and basics behind
lightning in computer graphics.

harry_x

Dec 25, 2004 at 10:57 AM

Look into redbook if you want to understand how builtin opengl lighting works (it also explains math of it's lithing)

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