Shadow

[cwhite40]

Ok so here I go, amateur me goes to learn how to do shadows... Oh man, OpenGL won't do it for me... Ok so I go look for tutorials... Then we find the shadow matrix ... Now I got smart and just figured, if that is the standard for shadowing in OpenGL, I can just copy and paste =-).

So here's my problem. I have a sphere and a plane. I have a working shadowMatrix command and want to now: what variables, arrays and stuff that needs to go in the display code to get my shadows visible on the plane. I got reflections down and this is the only thing that hinders me =-(..

[Divide Overflow]

You'll only need the shadow matrix. Render your scene. Determine the plane to render the shades on. Set the projection matrix, render in your favorite shade color

Divide Overflow

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[cwhite40]

Yah, I got that general idea down but I need the code for it ........


cwhite40

[newt]

There's a good description in the back of the red book. I think there's even some example code in the glut distribution somewhere.

[Roderic (Ingenu)]

You should check nVidia web site, they have a projected shadow demo.

They are other infos about that on this web site, in the tutorial section.

[cwhite40]

Ok this really is not working. The glut code and nVida code are not well explained. I have no idea what to do here . Does anyone have well explained shadow code. I have tried this so many times I think I'm going to turn into a shadow .

cwhite40

[Gabriel]

I took the code form Mark Kilgard from nVidia corporation...

void ShadowMatrixf (float mat[16],
float pA, float pB, float pC, float pD,
float vX, float vY, float vZ, float vW)
{
float Dot = pA * vX +
pB * vY +
pC * vZ +
pD * vW;
mat[0] = Dot - vX * pA;
mat[1] = -vY * pA;
mat[2] = -vZ * pA;
mat[3] = -vW * pA;
mat[4] = -vX * pB;
mat[5] = Dot - vY * pB;
mat[6] = -vZ * pB;
mat[7] = -vW * pB;
mat[8] = -vX * pC;
mat[9] = -vY * pC;
mat[10] = Dot - vZ * pC;
mat[11] = -vW * pC;
mat[12] = -vX * pD;
mat[13] = -vY * pD;
mat[14] = -vZ * pD;
mat[15] = Dot - vW * pD;
}

Use this matrix this way:

float mat[16]; // This is the sahdow matrix

ShadowMatrixf (mat,
0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, // The plane
0.0, 10.0, 0.0, 1.0 ); // The light position

render some geometry...
glPushMatrix ();
glMultMatrixf (mat);
render the same geometry...
glPopMatrix ();

I hope this will help...

[cwhite40]

Cool!!

One more question though, what is the plane parameters supposed to be: vertices, points, normals?

Thank You
cwhite40

[Gabriel]

the a,b & c parameters represent the plane normal the d parameter represent the lenght of this vector.