{"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. With &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/20060806\/soft-shadows-are-great\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Soft Shadows are Great!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,408],"tags":[638,201,59],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opengl","category-pixel-hacking-2","tag-opengl","tag-soft-shadow","tag-tools"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":283,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}