Page not Found Custom Rendering "Forward Rendering process"

[mitm]

It looks like whoever added that link either intended to write about it or did and deleted the content.

However there is this forum post by @nehon explains some things.

What are the real benefits of deferred shading?

With classic Forward rendering you render the entire scene once for each light. That’s how 3.0 works. So basically 100 objects with 100 lights = 10000 draw calls. With classic deferred rendering you render a geometry pass to create a gbuffer with different informations : material color, position of the pixel in world space or view space (or depth), normals, everything you need to compute lighting. Then you create some kind of light buffer that is essentially a texture with light influence on s…

and this
https://jmonkeyengine.github.io/wiki/jme3/advanced/post-processor_water.html#how-did-we-implement-it-in-jme3
and this from one of jmonkeys developers,

Forward Rendering vs. Deferred Rendering | Envato Tuts+

The last link might of been what was intended for that page but I’m guessing here.

and lastly, someone from the core team would have to update what’s going on now with forward rendering and jme because this page was from 2012 or so.

An eternity in graphics advancement.