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Classic 3D videogame shadow techniques

October 25th, 2024 Towards the end of Wim Wenders’s excellent Perfect Days, the protagonist Hirayama is drinking beer under a bridge after he has seen a Businessman courting his crush. Suddenly the Businessman joins him under the bridge.

Towards the end of Wim Wenders’s excellent Perfect Days, the protagonist Hirayama is drinking beer under a bridge after he has seen a Businessman courting his crush. For example in Super Mario 64, the blobs are drawn using a special hardware feature that effectively clips the shadow to show up only on the ground plane. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006, Xbox 360) has beautiful projected tree shadows.Projected shadows can show through objects which makes them suitable only for special cases.

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