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I was thinking about some of my game project ideas and how practical they really are without an artist.  I do have good programming skills and can write a story, but I’m no artist.  In addition, I want to evaluate my ideas based on originality, because my motivation to develop a game is greatly diminished […]

The idea of ambient occlusion is that the sky hemisphere is lighting all objects, so the more that any one part of an object is in view of the sky hemisphere, the lighter it will be (and vice versa).  Crysis popularized a screen-space approximation of this effect, and their implementation seems to resemble soft shadows […]