Have people heard of moment shadow mapping?

[void pulsar]

Now we have various texture formats available we can potentially implement it in GameMaker

[jolly saffron]

what's that? (!)

[void pulsar]

highly technical is what it is!

https://momentsingraphics.de/Media/I3D2015/MomentShadowMappingVideo.mp4

further reading inc. paper https://momentsingraphics.de/I3D2015.html

detailed description of the actual implementation inc. shader code https://momentsingraphics.de/Media/I3D2015/MomentShadowMappingSupplementary.pdf

surprisingly simple code-wise but the maths is very clever

[jolly saffron]

i have only recently noticed how the word naive is the only one that's spelled with an i with two dots

that's only for 3d is it

this math leaves me speechless

[void pulsar]

this can be repurposed for 2D

[void pulsar]

(but it does require a 3D environment)

[exotic gust]

This is huge, have you tried to implement it in GameMaker?

[void pulsar]

nope, not at all

also doing some reading around the topic, it looks like exponential variance shadow mapping mmmight be a bit more effective

[exotic gust]

Ohh i see, it looks like a little bit too much difficulty to me to trying implement that by myself 🥲

Thank you for the answer 🙏🏻