Elysian Shadows

You need to have color on both the light and the object. If the light has no color, it has no intensity. If the object has no color it fully absorbs the light. So you need a diffuse and possibly specular color if you're going that route. Where are you doing the lighting? View? World? It looks like y...

You know the reason that I say that this mentality simply won't fly in college is because even in the time that I've been involved in higher education and the workforce (14 years) after high school, the gap between what is minimally acceptable academically in college and what is produced from your t...

Uh On second thought I think I'd die if I double major To be fair, it's not really twice the effort, because most of the classes are the same, so you wouldn't have to do them twice. Ehhhh, I don't know what your curriculum is like but there is absolutely zero overlap between CS and EE majors here. ...

Accy wrote:I'm the kind of person who doesn't do any homework but gets A's on the tests.

Uh
On second thought
I think I'd die if I double major

That will never fly in college...

All three of those majors (Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science) are all pretty different from each other. Yes, a CS/EE double major sucks precisely 7 bags of dicks. Computer Engineering is a fine mix if your school offers it (they should). You'll get a lot of exposure ...

Ah excellent. Multiple little issues. One of the things I found very helpful was to establish a standard for a basic effect library. We would alias common bind points to keywords so that when you need to bind particular common parameters, such as a view space light position, the bind is already set ...

Ah, that helps. I have to run off to a class, but I'll have a look tonight if you haven't already come up with a solution by then. The wide fov on the projection shouldn't account for the issues. With shadowmapping, while its mathematically correct to give a 90 degree fov, in practice with perspecti...

Would you happen to have any images depicting the problem? I suspect I know whats going on here. P.S: I'll give some initial thoughts here aside from your interesting world to clip mapping. 1) First, for projected shadowmaps, 90 degree fov will almost always give you a pretty damn good amount of dis...

I tend to be of the thought that "If you know one high level language you really know them all". It's certainly possible to begin learning programming with a language like Java or C++. Matter of fact, that's where I started. The finer details of the language presentation are largely irrele...

You wouldn't need to at all unless that information was useful to you.

If there is no poly list, however, then you will require the edge list. You may have to build it yourself with correct winding order.

Are you backface culling? Not familiar with wavefront's format but if you have a poly list you should have a good solid object model. If your poly winding order is off, then if you have backface culling for either CW/CCW then you'll get exactly the anomalies you're seeing. Either way, this should no...

No, there isn't really an easier way. You have to sum the connected face normals up for every face the vertex shares. That said, you should only have to do this one time.

A PC in a box...

Would need to see your client code (C/C++) that does the attribute binding. There are a whole slew of generic and non-generic semantic binding functions that aren't always compatible or implemented on specific hardware targets. This is really just an atrociously horrid implementation of high level G...

The "annoying long scientific notation" is just a representation of the value. Rounding will only do you harm.

See error propagation.