Screen-space ambient occlusion [SSAO] and its siblings like Image-Space Horizon-Based AO [HBAO] are some of those techniques that I have a hard time loving. They can be great if done right, but really horrible when done wrong. Sadly, I have the feeling the latter is still the most common case in the games I get…
Albeit with trembling knees, I’m very excited to announce I’ll be speaking at FMX this year, ‘Europe’s most renowned conference on digital entertainment’. It’s an intimidating place to be, with many of my heroes either in the organisation or in the speaker list! Luckily I won’t be alone; the session will be part of the…
It’s been a while since I’ve made a blog post about something I’ve played around with just for the heck of it. With Away3D 4.1 Alpha pushed out yesterday, I decided to spend the day revisiting an old friend: skin rendering. Remember the blog post of skin rendering when Away3D 4 was still codenamed Broomstick…
If you’ve been paying attention to the Away3D blog, you probably already know that the 4.1 alpha has been released today, which has been my main fixation since September (when I wasn’t getting radiation poisoning). As mentioned in the release post, one of the new features is “multipass shading”. If you’re not into 3D rendering programming,…
One of the features we considered important for the next release of the Away3D engine (4.1) were real-time dynamic reflections, allowing for more realism and precision than the common static environment maps. In the dev branch of the engine, you can now find two flavours: reflections based on dynamic environment maps, and planar reflections. Dynamic Environment Maps…