Category Rendering

Topics explaining how game engines render an artist's artwork.

Rendering Techniques

Global Illumination (GI)

Image Based Lighting (IBL)

Physically Based Rendering (PBR)

Rendering Articles

• Brief Considerations About Materials by Pedro Toledo is a great explanation of how specular works in computer graphics, including dialetric and conductor surfaces, and why people use inverse-hue specular color maps. In the Polycount thread about this article, Jordan 'JordanW' Walker explains how gamma affects specular color as well.
• Model Presentation Polycount wiki page has links to rendering tutorials.

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