[sldev] Google Summer of Code 2008 update

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2008-04-30, at 23:25, Dave Parks wrote:

> You're mixing direct lighting and ambient occlusion.

Actually, I'm talking about a different approach.

> Ambient occlusion is the approximation of shadows that would be  
> generated if light was coming from all directions.  Direct  
> shadowing (creating shadows from the sun) is done with hardware  
> shadow maps, which complements SSAO very well but is a totally  
> separate technique.

Not trying to create shadows, just to get rid of the excessive  
directional lighting from the sun when you're "inside". If the sun  
isn't visible to the avatar, you could assume you're "inside" and  
fall back to primarily ambient lighting.