Re: Announcing shadow rendering feature

[Daniele C. <dca...@in...>]

Great! It seem works very well.

James Walker ha scritto:
> James W. Walker wrote:
>   
>> On Jun 6, 2007, at 9:04 AM, James W. Walker wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On Jun 6, 2007, at 2:22 AM, Daniele Cavallini wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Do you think It will be possibile work with orthographic cameras into
>>>> future?
>>>>         
>>> I don't know how.  The problem is that the shadow volume algorithm
>>> involves rendering infinite points, which requires setting yon to
>>> infinity.  But there is no sensible way to set yon to infinity for an
>>> orthographic camera.
>>>       
>> I read something saying that if you have the GL_NV_depth_clamp  
>> extension, you can do it without an infinite yon.
>>     
>
> Daniele, you might want to try it with an orthographic camera.  On the 
> 6th, I changed the shadow code so that it does not use infinite yon if 
> the camera is orthographic, and the code already uses GL_NV_depth_clamp 
> if that extension is available.
>