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6 min

How Games Fake Reflections Without Real Light

Real reflections would kill any GPU at 60fps. Games use planar renders, frozen panoramas, and screen-space tri…

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5 min

Game Engine Shadows: The Depth Map Trick Explained

Game shadows skip physics entirely. A depth texture, two numbers, and sixty comparisons per second is all it t…

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