Make shadows travel.

Tiled shadow mapping gives each slice of a large directional-light view its own camera while storing the results in a shadow-map array. Compare that budget with the ordinary one-camera shadow path.

active path

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backend

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shadow layers

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resolution

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draw calls

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triangles

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Building the shadow array and its tile cameras…

Click a landmark to inspect its shadow context.

Drag to orbit · click a landmark · press R to reset