Physically-Based Rendering with PowerVR - Part 2
This document is a guide to the PowerVR SDK demo, ImageBasedLighting, which implements physically-based rendering (PBR) with image-based lighting (IBL).
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https://www.imgtec.com/blog/physically-based-rendering-with-powervr-part-2/
This document is a guide to the PowerVR SDK demo, ImageBasedLighting, which implements physically-based rendering (PBR) with image-based lighting (IBL).
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