Some days ago I was browsing through Acknex Unlimited and I found this 2009 Summer Contest Entry by Martin Coumont (http://www.opserver.de/coni_users/web_users/pirvu/au/demo/zips/acdfsm.zip) and couldn't resist to share it with people here, as I'm sure some of you didn't know about it.

Approximate Cumulative Distribution Function Shadowmapping (ACDFSM) allows bassically dynamic shadowmapping for:

-Sun Light
-Pointlights
-SpotLights
-Up to 9 Lights at the same time.

I've searched for a long time for something like this and finally found it, I tested on A8 building a simple scene using ACDFSM and A8's HDR It and it worked perfectly.

Here are some screenshots:






Link for scene+source: http://www.mediafire.com/?l7kb4kq4kvyyptk


If you want to use it I've prepared it so you just have to copy the folder "ACDFSM" to you project folder and add these lines to your code:



then start them:



You can easily add lights using the included my_pointlight and my_spotlights dummy models, as they will get automatically assigned their action and you can set them up in WED in seconds.


Thank you very very much Martin Coumont!!