ABSTRACT
As graphics hardware has become more and more generic and programmable, applications employing real-time 3D graphics have begun to explore alternatives to traditional rendering pipelines, in order to avoid their disadvantages. One of the most popular techniques currently in use is known as deferredrendering. This technique is primarily geared toward supporting large numbers of dynamic lights without a complex set of shader programs (see Figure 11.1). It has been successfully integrated into engines made by Crytek (Mittring, 2009), Naughty Dog (Balestra & Engstad, 2008) (Hable, 2010), and Guerrilla Games (Valient, 2007).
