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Unlock with PatreonVolumetric Rendering: Surface Shading
This third instalment on Volumetric Rendering will explain how to shade volumes in a realistic fashion. This essential step is what gives threedimensionality to the flat, unlit shapes that have been generated so far with raymarching.
- Introduction
- Step 1. Lambertian Reflectance
- Step 2. Normal Estimation
- Step 3. The Shading
- Step 4. Specular Reflections
- Conclusion
You can find here all the other posts in this series:
- Part 1: Volumetric Rendering
- Part 2: Raymarching
- Part 3: Surface Shading
- Part 4: Signed Distance Fields
- Part 5: Ambient Occlusion
- 🚧 Part 6: Hard and Soft Shadows
- 🚧 Part 7: Volume Raycasting
Physically Based Rendering and lighting models in Unity3D
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, [download the Unity3D package]
Why is it colder at the poles and hotter on the equator? This question, which seems completely unrelated to shaders, is actually fundamental to understand how lighting models work. As explained in the previous part of this tutorial, surface shaders use a mathematical model to predict how light will reflect on triangles. Generally speaking, Unity supports two types of shading techniques, one for matte and one for specular materials. The former ones are perfect for opaque surfaces, while the latter ones simulate objects which reflections. The Maths behind these lighting models can get quite complicated, but understanding how they work is essential if you want to create your own, custom lighting effect. Up to Unity4.x, the default diffuse lighting model was based on the Lambertian reflectance. Continue reading