Hey guys
Do you know any FAST rendering method for soft shadows?
Actually, that’s what I could think of:
Since I’m using a portal based angine, I can determine which area the player is currently in. Then I can get all the portals connected to this area(which lead into other areas), and then make a sort of frustum- the f. sides are going through the portals sides(hope that isn’t too hard to understand
Then, since every face in the world has a lightmap, I’m just projecting every portal frustum onto the ligmap, and then, using a kind of scanline algo, I just draw the portal’s shape into the lighmap and fill it with the computed light values.
Then I’m just rendering the faces as if they had normal lighmaps…
Do you have any other ideas???