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Valve lighting paper from SIGGRAPH 2006
I remember seeing this presentation before, but the paper from last year's SIGGRAPH has some new pictures. http://ati.amd.com/developer/siggraph06/Mitchell-ShadingInValvesSourceEngine.pdf I like the "variable luxel density" images, smart. They also showed more pics about their "radiosity" specular effect, comparisons of… -
Re: Valve lighting paper from SIGGRAPH 2006
yeah from playing HL2, the only time i noticed normalmaps was on the antlions, and on some environment-mapped tile walls (like they showed in the paper there). that said, i love how the game looks and the whole style of it, it is very realistic and atmospheric, but IMHO 90% of their normal maps went to waste, seems like a… -
Re: Valve lighting paper from SIGGRAPH 2006
I played HL2 and Ep 1, and I didn't even notice that they changed the lighting. I think it might be that they put too much contrast and baked in lighting in the textures, but I also think their shader doesn't capture enough of the volume of the normals/geometry. That above shot to me, I can barely tell it's not just a…
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