Soft Stencil Shadows

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SoftStencils.rar [776Kb] – C# 2.0 (VS.NET 2005)

Description

This demo demonstrates a technique that fellow forum user kTech proposed in the Beta Discussion forum to smooth otherwise hard stencil shadows. It uses screen-space blur of the shadow pass to smoothen things out.

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Double-Sided Bumped Refraction

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Both downloads are Visual Basic.NET 2005 projects.

Refraction.rar [408Kb] – Simpler first version
Refraction_v2.rar [665Kb] – Second version, now with backface rendering (double-sided refraction) and more test models

Description

A specular-capable, normal-mapped, double-sided refraction shader that can be applied to pretty much any TVMesh, originally asked by forum user WEst.

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Non-Reflective Water

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NonReflectiveWater.rar [7.9Mb] – C# 2.0 (VS.NET 2005)

Description

I had a request from a MMORPG developer to make a lightweight water shader that doesn’t need a reflection rendersurface, yet looks acceptable.
It looks nowhere as shiny as the reflective water shader or even TV’s built-in water, but it runs a zillion times faster because it doesn’t do any parallaxing, nor specular bumpmapping, nor perspective projection… Its implementation is alot simpler as well.

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Landscape Height-Based Coloring

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HeightBasedLandscape.rar [152Kb] – C# 2.0 (VS.NET 2005)

Description

A über-simple landscape shader that maps a color ramp to a landscape’s height. Basically, it demonstrates that shaders on landscapes is possible, and can be a nice addition to a visual landscape editor.

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The Blue Planet

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HLSLBluePlanet.rar [8.9Mb] – C# 2.0 (VS.NET 2005)

Description

This demo is the remake of an old 6.2 demo I had made to test materials and lighting. I was always decieved by that lack of proper bump-mapping in 6.2… so I remade it in 6.5 with custom shaders, very high-resolution textures and normal-maps, and even the moon!

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AGT’s Third Person Demo – C# 2.0 Port

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AGT3rdPersonDemo.rar [10Mb]

Description

This demo is a port of AGT’s Third Person Demo that was posted on the TV3D Beta Discussion forum. The original version was VB6, I just took the same media and code structure and adapted it to C# 2.0 (Visual Studio.NET 2005).

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