1.0Imagination Developerhttps://developer.imaginationtech.comLawrence Greenhttps://developer.imaginationtech.com/blog/author/imglawrenceg/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="4qT7a9d0jv"><a href="https://developer.imaginationtech.com/blog/vulkan-fully-ray-traced-hard-shadows/">Vulkan Fully Ray-Traced Hard Shadows</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://developer.imaginationtech.com/blog/vulkan-fully-ray-traced-hard-shadows/embed/#?secret=4qT7a9d0jv" width="600" height="338" title="“Vulkan Fully Ray-Traced Hard Shadows” — Imagination Developer" data-secret="4qT7a9d0jv" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(c,l){"use strict";var e=!1,o=!1;if(l.querySelector)if(c.addEventListener)e=!0;if(c.wp=c.wp||{},c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage);else if(c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if(!t);else if(!(t.secret||t.message||t.value));else if(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret));else{for(var r,s,a,i=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),n=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=0;o<n.length;o++)n[o].style.display="none";for(o=0;o<i.length;o++)if(r=i[o],e.source!==r.contentWindow);else{if(r.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message){if(1e3<(s=parseInt(t.value,10)))s=1e3;else if(~~s<200)s=200;r.height=s}if("link"===t.message)if(s=l.createElement("a"),a=l.createElement("a"),s.href=r.getAttribute("src"),a.href=t.value,a.host===s.host)if(l.activeElement===r)c.top.location.href=t.value}}},e)c.addEventListener("message",c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",t,!1),c.addEventListener("load",t,!1);function t(){if(o);else{o=!0;for(var e,t,r,s=-1!==navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 10"),a=!!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv:11\./),i=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),n=0;n<i.length;n++){if(!(r=(t=i[n]).getAttribute("data-secret")))r=Math.random().toString(36).substr(2,10),t.src+="#?secret="+r,t.setAttribute("data-secret",r);if(s||a)(e=t.cloneNode(!0)).removeAttribute("security"),t.parentNode.replaceChild(e,t);t.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:r},"*")}}}}(window,document); </script> https://developer.imaginationtech.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/FullRTHardShadow.png1280800Shadows play an important role in conveying realism to the user and to ground objects in the scene of any visual graphics experience. Yet, they have long remained one of the most difficult features to accomplish at both speed and quality in real-time applications. As hardware improves and hardware-accelerated ray tracing techniques become more prevalent, ... Read more