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Render to texture

Started by bakery2k1 Jan 10, 2002 at 9:16 AM 0 replies 250+ views

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Jan 10, 2002 at 9:16 AM

OK, I''ve now got my projective textures working, so would like to try shadow mapping. This involves first rendering the scene from the lights point of view to a smaller(eg 256x256 viewport), obtaining te depth values for each pixel and using these as a texture. How can I: a) Render my scene so that the depth buffer is automatically rendered to a 256x256 texture? OR: b) -Reduce the viewport size to 256x256 (without changing the window size) AND -Read back depth values from the resulting image? Thanks

CrazedGenius

Jan 10, 2002 at 9:22 AM

nVidia has a sample on their site that does exactly what you''re talking about.

a) Create a 256x256 texture and backbuffer. Set both when rendering your scene.

and

b) Call SetViewport()

See the nVidia sample about the depth buffer. Alternatively, you can use a vertex shader to write derived depth values to the color channel and use that for your shadow map.

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