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3D Graphics Rendering Cookbook

You're reading from 3D Graphics Rendering Cookbook A comprehensive guide to exploring rendering algorithms in modern OpenGL and Vulkan

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838986193

Length 670 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

DirectX

Concepts

Graphics Programming

Authors (2):

Viktor Latypov

Sergey Kosarevsky

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Establishing a Build Environment

2. Chapter 2: Using Essential Libraries FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Getting Started with OpenGL and Vulkan

4. Chapter 4: Adding User Interaction and Productivity Tools

5. Chapter 5: Working with Geometry Data

6. Chapter 6: Physically Based Rendering Using the glTF2 Shading Model

7. Chapter 7: Graphics Rendering Pipeline

8. Chapter 8: Image-Based Techniques

9. Chapter 9: Working with Scene Graphs

10. Chapter 10: Advanced Rendering Techniques and Optimizations

11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Implementing shadow maps in OpenGL

As we learned from the previous chapters, we can render complex scenes with varying sets of materials, including physically based rendering (PBR) materials. While these techniques can produce very nice images, the visual realism of our scenes was severely lacking. Shadow mapping is one of the cornerstones of getting more realistic rendering results. In this recipe, we will give initial guidance on how to approach basic shadow mapping in OpenGL. Considering OpenGL is significantly less verbose compared to Vulkan, this recipe's main focus will be the shadow-mapping algorithm details, while its Vulkan counterpart is focused on the Vulkan application programming interface (API) details to get you started with shadow mapping.

Getting ready

The Chapter8/GL01_ShadowMapping demo application for this recipe implements basic steps for a projective shadow-mapping pipeline. It would be helpful to quickly go through the code before reading this recipe...

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Authors (2)

Sergey Kosarevsky

Sergey Kosarevsky

Sergey Kosarevsky is a former rendering lead at Ubisoft RedLynx. He currently leads Vulkan development at Meta. He worked in the AR/VR and mobile industries at DAQRI, TWNKLS, Blippar, Layer, Yandex, and SPB Software, where he designed and implemented custom real-time rendering technology. He has more than 20 years of software development experience and more than 14 years of mobile and embedded 3D graphics experience. In his Ph.D. thesis, Sergey employed computer vision to solve mechanical engineering problems. He has co-authored several books on mobile software development in C++.

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Viktor Latypov

Viktor Latypov

Viktor Latypov is a software engineer and mathematician with experience in compiler development, device drivers, robotics, and high-performance computing and with a personal interest in 3D graphics and mobile technology. Surrounded by computers for more than 20 years, he enjoys every bit of developing and designing software for anything with a CPU inside. Viktor holds a PhD in applied mathematics from Saint-Petersburg State University.

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