Already told you on ICQ how awesome this is

Good luck with this one. You'll need it
And please keep us updated, the community is thirsting for a nice shadowmapping shader i'd say

agree here

BoH_Havoc, you know very well that the hard part isn´t really the shader but the math, especially for the matrices calculated on the cpu :P
And thank you for getting me started with shadowmapping in the end of the last year Although I sometimes regret that I had you helping me... It could have saved me a lot of time and frustration if I had given up on this :P

Thanks to you and to Wiliam for commenting

I think this time I will wait until giving away a demo but I hope to be that far until sunday, because afterwards holidays are over and I´ll have a little less time... .

Here is a new screenshot I just took

I finally found out last night at about 3am that the example LiSPSM code from the paper multplicated two matrices the wrong way around, which caused it not to work...
Now it does work and I also already implemented with some help from Error014 a dynamic changing value for the lispsm quality to make sure that the LiSPSM quality stays nearly constant even with "bad" camera angles.

On the screenshot the quality looks worse than before, but the distance of visible shadows increased with a factor of about 3 and the better usage of the depthmaps causes the VSM to work worse than before, which made them look much better than they really were.

A complex name for a complex aspect, makes sense ^^
If you succeed in this, this will become one of greatest UCs ever
You're so close to victory Slin, don't let unexpected events turn down your focus on SM

Cheers

Frazzle

I can't wait for demo..

Que?

Looking good though, keep on it, I hope you can crack the puzzle and achieve some fast soft shadows.

Wow it looks realy cool!
I hope that you'll suceed on this and Conitec will buy it from you

Dark_Samurai

I am currently improving the shaders to make them not only faster but also to get rid of some aliasing and movement caused in the shader.

This is how it looks with three 256*256 depthmaps:

Nice effect, maybe even better than smoothing the shadow!