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Features vs. Beauty [View] |
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Artist: What kind of shading
is supported? Producer: Smooth shading. |
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| Tech: Almost every graphics engine is capable of flat shading from a fixed directional light source. Most can also handle Gouraud shading (a.k.a. smooth shading) and some can handle specular highlights (shiny spots). A few do Phong shading as well. | |
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Artist: What are the allowable
combinations of shading, lighting, and texturing? Producer: All can be combined. |
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| Tech: This important question is often forgotten amid the confusion of technical answers, but it's important to ask. For example, some graphics engines won't smooth-shade a textured face, and ambient lighting may behave differently for flat-shaded (as compared to smooth-shaded) objects. | Psych: If the artist gets an curt, "Of course it all works,"he or she needs to proceed with caution. The artist in this situation should create a simple test case and prove it before doing a lot of work that depends on a combination of these features. the prototype will also be a valuable debugging aid to the programmer, though he or she may not be thankful initially. |
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Artist: How are Gouraud shading
borders determined? Producer: Any faces that share edges are smooth-shaded together. |
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| Tech: Most smooth-shading graphics engines assume that any faces with shared vertices should be smooth-shaded together. | |
