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Per Pixel Lighting

Started by Programmer101 Mar 22, 2007 at 8:16 PM 0 replies 400+ views

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Mar 22, 2007 at 8:16 PM

How would you go about implementing per pixel lighting? I've read about normal mapping, but I really don't want to do that unless I have to. If so, how do you do that? In all that I've read its been very confusing. I know that you bake the normals to a texture and load it into a shader. Then you have to calculate the normals with tangents or something but thats where I get lost.

51mon

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Mar 22, 2007 at 8:26 PM

If you just want to make the diffuse lighting do like this:
(You need to know how to implement a simple shader.)

• Send a render call to render the meshes just the regular way.
• In the vertex shader you just pushing the normals forward in a texture coordinate.
• In the pixel shader you first normalize the normals, because they shrink when they are interpolated.
• Then you use the normal and do a regular diffuse calculation and let that value fill the pixel.

If you want to do bump mapping too, you are half the way. But it regards a little bit more involvement.

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