Beer glass scene creation
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03-10-2003
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shadows
Is there a general rule that the bigger your model, the higher the depth map resolution needs to be.
I have a massive model of an aircraft carrier and the Dmap is over 3ooo, and the shadows are still naf. I can go down to 512 if I scale the model down to about the size of my grid.
So bigger the model, higher the Dmap?
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03-10-2003
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try playing with the filter size aswell that should improve your shadows a bit
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I got many lights on my Andrea Gail project. Currently I'm adding lights inside the cockpit. I've found out that a resolution of 64 and filter size of 2 is enough for these lights (frame resolution is 720x432)...
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04-10-2003
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The shadows only improve the higher I have the Dmap. But I cant go any higher then 4000 as the computer cant handle it.
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if that still doesnt gets you good shadows use raytracing...
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