Posts tagged with 'Shadows'

The Little Engine That Could - Shadows are kind of the whole point

The Golden Years of Graphics If you ask me, the golden years of real-time graphics were the stretch where the original Xbox was winding down and the Xbox 360 was coming on the horizon. DirectX 8 and its Shader Model 1.x were handing the torch to DirectX 9, first with Shader Model 2.0 and then the big one, Shader Model 3.0. It wasn't just that the hardware got better. Developers had finally learned how to squeeze every last drop out of the hardware they already had. Some of the most impressive ... read more →