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quanganht · 14-Jul-2010, 03:42

I want to ask which type of lighting model(s) used in modern 3D games, say Crysis. Can Blinn-Phong alone is enough? What are other options? IMO Strauss is very flexible, but does not produce convincing enough results.

shuipi · 22-Jul-2010, 15:28

halo 3 uses cook-torrence from their 2008 gdc and siggraph papers

Rodéric · 22-Jul-2010, 18:56

I have rarely seen anything better than blinn-phong and phong in games, although you have much more interesting lighting models out there.

There are a few games using that plus some ambient (double Hemisphere, Cube, Spherical Harmonics...)

Barbarian · 23-Jul-2010, 04:00

We're using normalized Blinn-Phong, with an approximate shadowing/masking term. For details check out "Real Time Rendering, 3rd edition". A lot of the ideas are from there.

repi · 23-Jul-2010, 04:29

Same here

14-Jul-2010, 03:42	#1
quanganht Registered Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 1	Lighting model used in games I want to ask which type of lighting model(s) used in modern 3D games, say Crysis. Can Blinn-Phong alone is enough? What are other options? IMO Strauss is very flexible, but does not produce convincing enough results.

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Rodéric a.k.a. Ingenu Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Horsham, United Kingdom Posts: 2,046	I have rarely seen anything better than blinn-phong and phong in games, although you have much more interesting lighting models out there. There are a few games using that plus some ambient (double Hemisphere, Cube, Spherical Harmonics...) __________________ That message expresses my opinion, you can disagree with me, but an opinion can't be wrong.

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repi Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sweden Posts: 135	Same here __________________ personal blog - ramblings about game development, the games industry and rendering by a developer twitter feed - mostly just random comments about rendering, game development and battlefield i get your fail - random weird & broken game development funness

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22-Jul-2010, 15:28	#2
shuipi Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Beijing, China Posts: 60	halo 3 uses cook-torrence from their 2008 gdc and siggraph papers

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Barbarian Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: California, USA Posts: 195	We're using normalized Blinn-Phong, with an approximate shadowing/masking term. For details check out "Real Time Rendering, 3rd edition". A lot of the ideas are from there.

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