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Stencil Shadows Quality

Started by VerMan Jan 9, 2012 at 2:13 AM 0 replies 1.1k views

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Jan 9, 2012 at 2:13 AM

Hi forum,
so what do you think (or know) about the different quality settings found in a game, in particular Stencil Shadows.

I've seen some games with different settings like: Low, Medium, High, Very High. But, what's the meaning of this? I'm assuming it depends on how many lights are taken into account when computing the shadow volume.

Any thoughts?

Hodgman

Jan 9, 2012 at 2:54 AM

There's a lot of things that a "quality" setting could influence when rendering a scene with stencil shadows...
* Number of lights that cast shadows.
* Number of objects that cast shadows.
* Types of objects that receive shadows.
* Distances that shadows are cast.
* Limits of number of lights-per-caster or casters-per-light.
* Polygon counts of casters (it's common to use lower LOD levels for the stencil volume).
* Whether any kind of softening technique is used / whether area-lights are simulated.

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