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2d shadow blending problems - tesil - Mar 16, 2011 05:08 PM
I used this article...
http://archive.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article2032.asp
...to create a 2d game with dynamic hard shadows with lights.
Here's how rendering works:
For each light:
(1) clear the color buffer's alpha components to all 0s (by drawing calling glColorMask(0,0,01) and drawing a screen sized quad with a 0 alpha)
(2) draw light map (using glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA))
(3) draw shadow geometry for the current light (basically just draw polygons containing an alpha of 0.0 using (using glBlendFunc(GL_ZERO,GL_ZERO).
(4) draw sprites (using glBlendFunc(GL_DST_ALPHA, GL_ONE)).
(For simplicities sake assume that 0.0 is my default ambient light setting)
The problem is, say you have 2 lights overlapping one another. Light one is drawn first, followed by it's shadows (light 1's shadow polygon s will write 0.0s into the alpha buffer), followed by light 2 (which will brighten light 1's shadow polygons), followed by light 2's shadow polygons which will be 0.0 (darker than light 1's shadow polygons) since light 2 and its shadows are drawn after light 1 and no other light will be drawn after light 2. So you see light 2 ends up with darker shadows than light 1.
I'm sure I'm probably overlooking something obvious, but not matter how hard I try I cannot seem to overcome this problem.
RE: 2d shadow blending problems - Skorche - Mar 17, 2011 10:12 AM
You have to render the shadow mask separately. You don't render the light, then darken it by the shadows. You render a mask for the shadows, then use this mask to prevent the lighting from ever showing up in the first place.