Lighting model used in games

[quanganht]

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]

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

 

[Rodéric]

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]

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]

Same here