8 Lighting

This section discusses varies ways of improving and refining the lighting of your scenes using OpenGL.

 
• 8.1 Phong Shading
  • 8.1.1 Phong Highlights with Texture
  • 8.1.2 Improved Highlight Shape
  • 8.1.3 Spotlight Effects using Projective Textures
  • 8.1.4 Phong Shading by Adaptive Tessellation
• 8.2 Light Maps
  • 8.2.1 2D Texture Light Maps
  • 8.2.2 3D Texture Light Maps
• 8.3 Other Lighting Models
• 8.4 Global Illumination
• 8.5 Bump Mapping with Textures
  • 8.5.1 Tangent Space
  • 8.5.2 Going for Higher Quality
  • Blending
  • 8.5.4 Why Does This Work?
  • 8.5.5 Limitations
• 8.6 Choosing Material Properties
  • 8.6.1 Modeling Material Type
    • Dielectrics
    • Metals
    • Composite Materials
    • Other Materials
  • 8.6.2 Modeling Material Smoothness