{"id":64,"date":"2006-08-06T21:33:11","date_gmt":"2006-08-06T20:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/?p=64"},"modified":"2011-09-07T19:57:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T18:57:47","slug":"soft-shadows-are-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/20060806\/soft-shadows-are-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft Shadows are Great!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just finihed to implement soft-shadows in the new oZone3D Engine. And I must say that soft shadows bring a huge amount of realism and credibility to 3d scenes. See for yourself:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/labs\/public\/200608\/o3_soft_shadows_final.jpg\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The oZone3D tech demo is available here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/demos_projects\/ozone3d_soft_shadows.php\">Soft Shadows Demo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can consider this demo as a little benchmark. Just start the oZone3D_SoftShadows_Benchmark.exe and look at the FPS in the title bar. With my current devstation I got the following score:<\/p>\n<p>PC1: AMD64 3500+ \/ 1024M DDR400 \/ Radeon X700Pro 128M Catalyst 6.6 \/ WinXpsp2: <b>5 FPS<\/b> :thumbdown:<\/p>\n<p>Soft shadows are very GPU consuming but they are the future of 3D! So to make the most of soft shadows, update your graphics card! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just finihed to implement soft-shadows in the new oZone3D Engine. And I must say that soft shadows bring a huge amount of realism and credibility to 3d scenes. See for yourself: The oZone3D tech demo is available here: Soft Shadows Demo You can consider this demo as a little benchmark. Just start the oZone3D_SoftShadows_Benchmark.exe and look at the FPS in the title bar. 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