Grass shadow on consoles

[Gabriel Sassone]

Hi everybody,
just curious about the possibility to render the grass shadow in
realtime on consoles.
Are you aware of some game that has this feature?
I was wandering if there is some kind of screenspace possibility to exploit,
or do you have other ideas.


Thanks!

[Megan Fox]

Kind of a general question... you can certainly render grass shadows pretty
well with cascaded shadow maps, for instance, and cascaded shadow maps work
fine on consoles. Do you mean more specifically?

The question is more - would you actually want to do that, since rendering
all of the grass into a shadow map is far from free and of arguable visual
impact. Doubly so if you mean that you want the shadows to cast ON to
grass, though again, certainly doable with (amongst other things) cascaded
shadow maps.

Post by Gabriel Sassone
Hi everybody,
just curious about the possibility to render the grass shadow in
realtime on consoles.
Are you aware of some game that has this feature?
I was wandering if there is some kind of screenspace possibility to
exploit, or do you have other ideas.
Thanks!
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[Thaddaeus Frogley]

We had the snow particle system in SH:SM both cast and receive
shadows, and that was on the Wii, so I don't see any reason why you
couldn't do the same with grass rendering.