Making it happen
Archive for January, 2007
ASP.NET, Linq, WF, etc tutorial
Jan 6th
In the case you missed it, here’s an excellent tutorial on how to code an website with the absolute latest technologies available from Microsoft. Unfortunately it’s not as clean & simple as you may think – some nasty hacks are present and, guess what, ASP.NET is harshly criticized because of its speed & bandwidth usage.
Stencil shadows approximation
Jan 6th
A pretty much ok approximation for stencil shadows to render
faster is to render the shadow volume of a low-detail model (even the bounding
box). However this will darken the object as it will be in the shadow box – so
you will have to start the volumes from the back faces of the box (so the
object will be lit). There will be no self-shadowing but that’s not really
necessary, the lighting darkens enough.
Another point, this works only with the zpass algorithm and not
with the zfail one.
