Week 165

2019-12-12

• the article explains in detail how to render a raytraced sphere that interacts with other parts of the Unity rendering pipeline
• covers how to use a billboard to render there sphere, explaining how to calculate an optimal camera facing quad and texture mapping
• extending to support shadow casting, receiving, and use of conservative depth output to enable early depth rejection

• beginner-focused tutorial that explains how 3D data is structured in computer graphics
• covers what shaders are, what type exists, and how they are used within Unity to define the look
• extending to support shadow casting, receiving, and use of conservative depth output to enable early depth rejection