Shadows

This is a D3D11 sample app that demonstrates several techniques for rendering real-time shadow maps. The following techniques are implemented:

• Cascaded Shadow Maps
• Stabilized Cascaded Shadow Maps
• Automatic Cascade Fitting based on depth buffer analysis, as in Sample Distribution Shadow Maps.
• Various forms of Percentage Closer Filtering
• Variance Shadow Maps
• Exponential Variance Shadow Maps (EVSM)
• Moment Shadow Maps

This code sample was done as part of 2 articles for my blog, which you can find here:

• https://therealmjp.github.io/posts/shadow-maps/
• https://therealmjp.github.io/posts/shadow-sample-update/

Build Instructions

The repository contains a Visual Studio 2015 project and solution file that's ready to build and run on Windows 7, 8, or 10. All external dependencies are included in the repository.