Darkplaces lighting
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{{cvar|r_shadow_shadowmapping_*|A group of cvars to control shadowmapping}} | {{cvar|r_shadow_shadowmapping_*|A group of cvars to control shadowmapping}} | ||
{{cvar|r_shadows_*|A group of cvars to control planar shadows}} | {{cvar|r_shadows_*|A group of cvars to control planar shadows}} | ||
| − | {{cvar|r_showlighting|Show areas lit by dynamic lightsources. Useful for finding out why some areas of the map render slowly (bright orange = lots of passes, slow)}} | + | {{cvar|r_showlighting|Show areas lit by dynamic lightsources. Useful for finding out why some areas of the map render slowly <nowiki>(bright orange = lots of passes, slow)</nowiki>}} |
| − | {{cvar|r_showshadows|Show areas covered by shadow volumes. Useful for finding out why some areas of the map render slowly (bright blue = lots of passes, slow). Only matters if using shadow volumes.}} | + | {{cvar|r_showshadows|Show areas covered by shadow volumes. Useful for finding out why some areas of the map render slowly <nowiki>(bright blue = lots of passes, slow)</nowiki>. Only matters if using shadow volumes.}} |
== See also == | == See also == | ||
Revision as of 15:25, 27 July 2012
Template:Article unfinished Darkplaces engine uses combined lighting model. Several lighting methods are implemented to give best results at cases they are aimed for.
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Light methods and effects
There is 4 lighting methods used in Darkplaces:
- Vertex lighting - low frequency static lighting, aimed at big counts of simple surfaces
- Lightmaps - high frequency static lighting, aimed at surfaces that receives shadows from static objects
- Lightgrid - low frequency static lighting, aimed at moving entities
- Realtime lighting - fully dynamic lighting (each light is a separate pass), aimed at switchable and moving lightsources that lights moving entities
Additionaly, Darkplaces supports a number of lighting effects:
- Coronas - aimed to simulate glow around lights, which looks good on small and medium size lights
- Planar shadows - not a lighting but shadowing method where each entity cast one shadow on the floor
- Customized modellight - lightgrid-sampled model lighting could be replaced in realtime
- Fog - global fog and global volumeric fog (with height set) are suppored
Light models
Darkplaces using several lighting models, most of them are set globally:
- Phong lighting model - generic lighting model used on all methods
- Fake light - a developer-only mode which is forced on non-lit maps (ones which was compiled by didnt get LIGHT phase). This is infinite realtime light that is cast from eye position.
- Toon shading - a phons lighting model with altered shading.
- Fullbright - no lighting applied
Shadow mapping vs Stencil shadows
Stencil shadow volumes is a shadow rendering method Darkplaces used in pre-2010. Since 2010 shadow mapping was implemented by Eihrul. Shadowmapping have a number of advantages over shadow volumes and is considered to replace them:
- It is faster to render (especially on complex area maps)
- Takes less CPU time (as construction of shadow volumes is not required)
- Supports LOD (far lights rendered with lower shadowmap resolution)
- Shadow edges are not ideally sharp
Comparison of different lighting methods
| Task | Vertex lighting |
Lightmap | Lightgrid | Realtime lighting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Details | Low | Medium | Low | High |
| Render speed | Fastest | Fast | Fastest | Slow |
| Precomputation time | Small | Long | Medium | N/A |
| RAM usage | Low | High | Low | Low |
| Shadows | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Light up | ||||
| Map surfaces | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Static BModels | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Moving/rotating BModels | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Animated models | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Console variables
r_shadow_realtime_world : Enabled realtime lighting of world lights (stored in external .rtlights file) r_shadow_realtime_dlight : Enabled realtime lighting of dynamic lights (created by entities) r_shadow_* : A group of cvars to control realtime lighting r_shadow_shadowmapping : Enables shadowmapping which replaces default shadow volume-based lighting r_shadow_shadowmapping_* : A group of cvars to control shadowmapping r_shadows_* : A group of cvars to control planar shadows r_showlighting : Show areas lit by dynamic lightsources. Useful for finding out why some areas of the map render slowly (bright orange = lots of passes, slow) r_showshadows : Show areas covered by shadow volumes. Useful for finding out why some areas of the map render slowly (bright blue = lots of passes, slow). Only matters if using shadow volumes.
