Comments on: Light Indexed Deferred Rendering http://www.gamerendering.com/2008/11/04/light-indexed-deferred-rendering/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:10:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: vp11 http://www.gamerendering.com/2008/11/04/light-indexed-deferred-rendering/comment-page-1/#comment-26726 vp11 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:56:24 +0000 http://www.gamerendering.com/?p=451#comment-26726 I was thinking, rather than using this approach in screenspace, would it work for lightmaps? For making lightmaps work with bumpmapping in a forward renderer we need to store the lightvector in a map, and also the light color etc... Storing light indexes into a lightmap would make pseudo-dynamic lights and bumpmapping possible at potentially lower memory requirements? I was thinking, rather than using this approach in screenspace, would it work for lightmaps?

For making lightmaps work with bumpmapping in a forward renderer we need to store the lightvector in a map, and also the light color etc…

Storing light indexes into a lightmap would make pseudo-dynamic lights and bumpmapping possible at potentially lower memory requirements?

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