Tag: real-time-rendering

Shadow mapping renders the scene from a light's viewpoint, stores the nearest depth, and compares that map during normal rendering. The simple depth-buffer idea became a foundation of real-time shadow rendering.

Microsoft's DXR API and NVIDIA's 2018 Turing/RTX hardware made ray queries a practical part of real-time game rendering, reviving a decades-old algorithm inside hybrid rasterization pipelines.