GDC Vault is part of the Informa Tech Division of Informa PLC
This is operated by a business or businesses owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them. Informa PLC's registered office is 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG. Registered in England and Wales. Number 8860726.
PBR Diffuse Lighting for GGX+Smith Microsurfaces
PBR specular uses a microfacet model, typically with a GGX normal distribution and Smith shadowing/masking. This talk will derive a PBR diffuse lighting model using the same microsurface, eliminating ad-hoc conversion of surface parameters between unrelated diffuse and specular models. This will shed light on microfacet models in general and some intricacies of Smith shadowing/masking and diffuse lighting models in particular. This session will see Disney's BRDF slices and how to interpret them for quick and easy BRDF comparison. Ultimately, this talk will discuss a new GGX+Smith diffuse shading model, a new and cheap approximation for Smith specular shadowing/masking, and some mathematical identities that can save 7-10 pixel shader cycles per light.
Did you know free users get access to 30% of content from the last 2 years?