Hello, I have been testing the maximum map size of the Doom 3 Engine (GPL release - https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl)
Everything was working well, until I started noticing these shadow artifacts:
at position: -10901 -18214 -11204
[ATTACH=CONFIG]767[/ATTACH]
The farther away from the origin I get, the more pronounced these artifacts are:
at position: -10802 -26483 -19383
[ATTACH=CONFIG]768[/ATTACH]
at position: -10802 -34683 -27540
[ATTACH=CONFIG]769[/ATTACH]
It seems that all of these artifacts are along the light/shadow volume bounds.
I have had limited success trying to test where the problem is occurring in the source - it seems to relate to whether the shadow volumes are capped - as disabling capped shadow volumes seems to get rid of the artifacts - but causes some other equally visible artifacts.
But in general it is all Greek to me.
I am looking for someone to point me in the right direction for how I could start learning how to solve this kind of problem. Should I just start reading stencil shadow tutorials, or should I start at the beginning with beginning OpenGL tutorials?
I feel like in the end I will find that it is not so much a bug as it is a trade-off with performance - but I am willing to make that trade off.
Also, any information about prior experience with this kind of problem will be helpful to me.
More examples:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]770[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]771[/ATTACH]