01.12.2004 | NO MORE MAIL

Spam has forced us to disable our email.

05.04.2005 | LAZY DEVELOPERS

Just wanted to say that we haven't forgotten about the shadow demo. There has just been quite a lot of stuff going on.

Wishlist/plan:
- Figure out what is wrong with the ATI driver
- Total rewrite of the framework code
- Create an nVidia 6800 version (just have to get hold of a card first)

01.12.2004 | DOCUMENTATION

There is now a PDF version of the soft shadow master thesis on the documents page.

05.11.2004 | SOFT SHADOWS

Uploaded a source only package for the hacked soft shadow demo. Get it from the download page.

05.11.2004 | NEW GUESTBOOK

Should be more stable.

05.11.2004 | SOFT SHADOWS

Added a hacked version of the soft shadow demo to the download page. This version should work on nVida card as well. The latest ATI drivers still does not work though.

27.01.2004 | NEW SOFT SHADOW VERSION

There is a new version of the Soft Shadow demo on the download page.

Changes:

- combined ATI / NVIDIA version
- fragment programs rewritten to make them easier to read
- fragment program for spherical light source is now only 55 instructions long
- fragment programs for rectangular/textures merged into one (using mARBle)
- window size can be changed in the gui (as requested by "MrChimp" in the guestbook)
- mouse works outside of window when in gui mode

- ...and a few minor changes

27.01.2004 | DRIVER PROBLEM?

It seems like the best ATI driver version for the soft shadow demo is still Catalyst 3.2.

08.01.2004 | FILE FORMAT .MAP

Uploaded a small document with a description of the .map file format.

07.01.2004 | SOURCE CODE RELEASE

The binaries and source code for our soft shadow volume framework/demo has been released. You can find it on the download page. There isn't much documentation yet, but feel free to experiment. If you want to compile the demo yourself you will need ODE. There are currently two versions of the demo, one for ATI (Radeon 9700 and above) and another one for NVIDIA (GeForceFX).