(October 2016) Monthly WIP screenshot thread

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@Apollo

How many lights do you have?

Cant remember exactly. Following what i have said in the thread i was close to 10k pointlights. Also the liming factor was the size of the lights.

Yadef, Yet Another DEFerred renderer

Hello everyone, in the following post i will try to explain what it is, and how it works, as well as the current optimisation techniques i use and what should/might come in the future. So lets start. What is deferred shading? In short, the system defers the lighting calcultion to a point where all not translucent geometry has already been renderer. The upsides are: lighting calculation have only to be applied to fragments visible. geometries have to be rendered only once, and not once for e…

I used a mesh holding a lot of spheres and some hacks to dynamically draw the amount required. There is one limiting factor that depends from gpu to gpu. I never managed to resolve this issue completely (in a mathematical way)