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REAL-TIME Rendering Techniques

 

Type: Computer Graphics Project · DigiPen

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Subject: CS562

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Engine: C++ / OpenGL / HLSL (created from scratch)

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Description: Using algorithms and techniques concerned with rendering images more accurately and efficiently in video game software; preferably imitating techniques used in the digital entertainment industry.

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Implementation:

• Smooth Free-Roaming First-Person Camera

• Deferred Shading Pipeline

• Normal Mapping

• Shadow Mapping

• Antialiasing

• Depth of Field

• Efficient Rendering for Multiple Light Sources

• Wireframe Geometry Shader

• Distance-Based Level of Detail Tessellation

• Adaptive View-Dependent Tessellation

• Procedural Texture Generation

• Occlusion Parallax Mapping with Shadows

• Horizon-Based Ambient Occlusion

• Image-Based Lighting

• Physically-Based Rendering

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Author: Ander Alzola

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Date: 2015

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External Asset Credits:

• HDRI Panoramas – HDR Labs' sIBL Archive

• Bust of Sappho – Artec3D Scan Gallery

• Iron Man Helmet – Free3D (submitted by drop23)

• Audi RSQ – Free3D (submitted by christian7073)

• TIE Fighter – Free3D (submitted by ideastudio)