Congratulation!

Yeah, that looks like a good start! Interested to see what you come up with.

If I understand it basicly right, you need a view in GS for each depthmap, right? That makes it quite slow with current GS-versions, doesn´t it?
I just made the experience that more than one view for the lights depthmaps is not usable with gamestudio in more complex scenes because it gets very slow-.-
But anyways, great work

it does. view rendering is way too slow for appropriate shadowmapping atm.

why is this supposed to be much slower in a7 than with other engines? the additional views have to be rendered there too?

performance still is ok with 4 shadow views and a 100000 poly scene on my slow gf6600 (no gt). i don't do any filtering yet though. so it could get quite slow at the end but games with shadow mapping (like the crysis demo with medium detail) run with about 5 - 10fps at 800x600 on my pc. you need a fast pc for such things.

pssm is running nicely but additional work is needed for reducing artifacts. i don't know much about the different shadow filtering methods and so on so it will take me a while to figure this out.

Good work!

Is this already using 32bit fp textures or are you using a normal 8bit depthmap?

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i don't know much about the different filtering methods and so on so it will take me a while to figure this out.

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I think i read somewhere that using anisotropic filtering in the depthmap samplers already gives a good visual boost. However this is a performance killer if i remember correctly. I'll have a look at my shaderbooks again...i think it was written somewhere in shader x5.

GREAT WORK ventilator you rock!!!

@BoH_Havoc - Yes it is in shader x5 but under a different name.

maybe this would do ?

IDirect3DDevice9::clear()

but it may need a dll because I dont know if the scope operator :: works in LiteC
Also u may need to set "render_sky" to the action that sets the depth buffer to 1.0