Questions tagged [rasterization]
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Phong shading: missing specular lighting, skipped face
I'm implementing my first rasterizer, and I've run into a 2 issues with Phong shading that I have no idea how to debug. First, specular lighting seems to be completely missing. Second, there is an ...
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How do I get this texture mapping for my quad (no triangles) to be perspective correct?
I'm working on a 3D Software Rasterizer and I'm wanting to render textures on walls now. I've tried to do it myself, but failed since it just distorts. I read up on the wikipedia page for Texture ...
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Why do I see a wireframe when rendering with conservative rasterization and disabled Z writes?
I wrote a shader that implements most ShaderLab commands:
Rendering without anything fancy:
After enabling conservative rasterization:
After disabling Z write:
Ironically, that's exactly what I ...
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How do I implement floors and ceilings properly to my DOOM Style Renderer?
I'm working on a tiny DOOM Style Renderer and I've managed to piece together something that can render walls. I pieced it together by looking at videos from 3DSage and The Old School Coder; I got a ...
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Why do the points of my triangle bend inwards?
I'm trying to make a tiny software renderer in hopes I can make some crappy little game in the far future, and I've hit a roadblock where nothing helps at all. I've found that whenever I go into the ...
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Is there a reason that we have to use homogeneous coordinates in rasterization?
Looking at the pipeline of games, I am confused about the necessity of homogeneous coordinates.
For gameplay logic, a 4x3 matrix is enough to handle translation, rotation, and scale. I can't think of ...
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How to achieve no gaps between triangles in software renderer like in Quake?
I've heard alot that I need to use fixed-point math, top-left rule, etc. to eliminate gaps between triangles but the thing is how did Quake not have any gaps, did it? I've seen Quake's math file and ...
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Raster Graphics vs Vector graphics
There was this game that I used to play when I was a kid. It's named Another World. It was ahead of its time in graphics, it even has real-time cutscenes on the SNES version. That game does not use ...
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Barycentric coordinates outputting coordinate outside of triangle
So I am trying to draw and fill a triangle on the screen using the barycentric method, but my barycentric implementation seems to be outputting outside triangle coordinates, why?
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Geometric clipping of triangles intersecting near plane
I was reading about how rasterization works but there is one topic I can't quite understand.
After perspective projection, our point is in clip space as I understand it.
Now we test all points in a ...
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Opengl in 500 lines barycentric calculation question
https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer/wiki/Lesson-2-Triangle-rasterization-and-back-face-culling
I cannot figure out how we go from uAB-vector + vAC-vector + PA-vector = 0 to the linear system with ...
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Opengl in 500 lines point in triangle question
https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer/wiki/Lesson-2-Triangle-rasterization-and-back-face-culling
I am on lesson 2 of the "Opengl in 500 lines" tutorial. I ...
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How can I draw filled triangles with the illusion of color?
So I have used the code of this website for drawing filled triangles. But I would like to improve my game by adding the illusion of color. Well sadly I made my game for the monochrome Nokia 5110 ...
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How can I draw filled triangles in C++?
VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: Im trying to fill a triangle. I have already made the 3D part. Sorry if this wasn't understandable.
I'm currently trying to create a simple 3D-Engine. Well, I have successfully ...
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Can I linear interpolate color along both the X and Y axis of a circle instead of using the distance formula on each individual point?
I've been unable to make it work and I'm not sure whether it's a problem with my code or if this can even be done. I'm sure there is a way to prove whether it is possible mathematically but I don't ...
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How to draw a smoother solid-fill circle?
I'm experimenting with drawing circles and have brute-forced a very simple one:
Pseduocode:
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Why does my triangle rasterization miss some pixels along one edge?
I am having an issue rasterizing a triangle. The goal is to calculate barycentric coordinates and make the triangle based off those coordinates. I am having an issue with having weird jaggy missing ...
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Why is the depth test not done on geometry before rasterization?
It seems the only time depth is used to discard data is during rasterization, i.e. at the fragment level.
In the geometry stage, I've only see culling and clipping of vertices. Is it not possible to ...
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Parallelism in GPU's rasterization process
Based on this article I understood the base principle inside the Rasterization algorithm:
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How can I obtain a triangle ID during rasterization?
I want to know the triangle ID of each rendered pixel is coming from. Is there a way to do this in OpenGL?
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Details of what GPU actually do when clipping in 4D homogeneous space?
I am learning programmable rendering pipeline by implementing a tiny software renderer. I try to implement it in a 'hardware' style. However, I am not familiar with the GPU pipeline and got some ...
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Drawing a lines radiating from every angle using Bresenham line algorithm
I am trying to recreate a image like this
... or just each point
Using Bresenham line algorithm, but can't seem to able to do so.. The point i receive from my computation doesn't look like a like, ...
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Software polygon rasterization with transparency using raw image data
I have an image with shapes in it (squares and triangles with different colors scattered in the image) and I have an algorithm that matches the image and extracts the geometry vertices from image raw ...
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How can I rasterize 3D triangles in software?
I am creating a 3D software renderer, and I have a wire frame cube rendering. Now I am working on solid color rendering and I am wondering what an efficient algorithm for shading the contents of the ...
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Retro Racing Renderer
While I have a lot of experience with coding SW&HW 3D rasterizers across multiple platforms and eras, I never got to coding a 2D renderer for a non-polygonal racing game with multiple rolling ...
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Algorithm to fill a shape defined by 4 pixel points?
I'm developing an application in Unity3D where a user can define 4 pixel points on screen, and what I would like to do is fill this shape with pixels using Unity's SetPixel.
While I can do this ...
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XNA/C# Convert polygons into tilemap
I'm currently working on my 2D survival game, where the world is infinite and generated by perlin noise. I wanted to also include biomes and this article interested me - http://www-cs-students....
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Is the rendering of distorted point clouds more complex?
I have two point clouds of n points:
A dense ball-shape point cloud with many points inside
A spherical point cloud with points on its surface.
Is there (really) any difference between rendering (...
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(XNA) Stretching Images (Sprites) without Blur (Rasterizing?)
thanks for clicking on this question although it has likely one of the most un-specific and confusing titles on this site. I am somewhat new to XNA and I have only posted 1 question on this site ...
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What coordinates are we passing to pixel shader from vertex shader?
I have read articles about shader programing and understood the very basic knowledge of shader programing. One thing I always get confused is about the texture mapping. What I pass(output) from VS to ...
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How do you draw a straight line between two points in a bitmap?
I'm playing around with height maps (bitmaps), trying to create some of my own in my game, and for that I need to implement some basic drawing methods. I've quickly realized that drawing straight ...
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Triangular grid and rendering to a texture (Direct3D 11)
Is it possible to render vertex data from a triangular grid into a texture with a same size (i.e. 3x3 vertices to 3x3 pixels - each pixel is representing one vertex)?
Consider following situation. I ...
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DirectX11 pixel shader in pipeline is missing
I'm writing a program which displays a MS3D model using DirectX, and unfortunately, the result shows nothing on the screen.
When I use the Graphics Debugger from Visual Studio 13, I notice that the ...
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Keep rasterized pixel amount constant
I have a scene that is rendered from the point of view of the light using an orthographic projection matrix.
For an arbitrarily shaped and oriented object that doesn't change its shape or size in ...
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How does the Direct3D 9 rasterizer determine triangle coverage?
I'm working on a software rasterizer to use in my project. I have implemented one that works well, however, often my rasterizer under or overestimates triangle coverage. I need perfect emulation of ...
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Fast software color interpolating triangle rasterization technique
I'm implementing a software renderer with this rasterization method, however, I was wondering if there is a possibility to improve it, or if there exists an alternative technique that is much faster. ...
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Is there any heuristic to polygonize a closed 2D raster shape with n triangles?
Let's say we have a 2D image black on white that shows a closed geometric shape.
Is there any (not naive brute force) algorithm that approximates that shape as closely as possible with n triangles? ...
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Scan-Line Z-Buffering Dilemma
I have a set of vertices in 3D space, and for each I retain the following information:
Its 3D coordinates (x, y, z).
A list of pointers to some of the other vertices with which it's connected by edges....
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