nVidia DirectX 10 - SoftShadows

[superkellerman8D]

realtime? 'Cause if it is, openGL can suck it!

[danielnathana]

@superkellerman8D Do you know what you're talking about? You can do real time shadows in OpenGL also.

[superkellerman8D]

@danielnathana not soft shadows! and when i say soft shadows i mean relative softness (aka hard edge closer to the object soft further away)

[danielnathana]

@superkellerman8D Yea OpenGL can do soft shadows real time. There are examples with sources on the OpenGL website.

[superkellerman8D]

@danielnathana So it seems. There is a very easy-to-find example on opengl.org about how to do correct penumbra shadows. Still, DX11 can do tessellation. And it is much faster.

[danielnathana]

@superkellerman8D Yep. OpenGL can do that too, easily done using the OpenGL Utility Library.

[superkellerman8D]

@danielnathana huh. I thought it wasn't updated since the 90's? Or is it one of those things that is always updated but it doesn't have specific versions?

[danielnathana]

@superkellerman8D I'm think they've updated it in OpenGL 4.0. But I do believe Direct3D does it better.

[jacek533]

what is the name of the tool that you used to make this testenvironment?

[Mecius]

Wow, how can that give such a framedrop? Hehe looks pretty realistic though.

[ShootMyMonkey]

Looks to me like they're varying the filter width and blending between two results when doing the accurate algorithm, whereas the fast one only uses a single filter width. So it looks almost as though it's running half the speed because they have to do the search loop twice from two starting points.

[idinev]

Yeah, it looks great. But the 15 fps (Accurate mode) and 28 fps (Fast mode) for this simple scene is *ugh* on a 8800.

[Danial79]

No that exciting, I know, but they are better than current game shadows.