The coolest graphics game on PS 2
Who has any opinions on this? I'm sure that the coolest game on PS2 in terms of graph is of course Black! Better it is not, but what are your opinions? Black squeezes out the last juices from ps2, sometimes even slows down, but quite a bit, but what a beauty![quote name = "gravemaker"] nonsense, shaders don't mean cool graphics, shaders are bullshit [/ quote]
Shaders, in the broadest sense of the word, are how a surface reacts to light. [b] Serezhik [/ b] correctly says that without shaders the graphics will be like in a duma 1. You probably don't even suspect, but all modern models have a Lambert shader - in fact, a simple shading. Without it, the models would look like planes (doom 1).
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A bit later, a specular shader appeared in games, which simulates reflection (for example, objects with a higher reflection coefficient and a less rough microstructure). I think many people still remember this wonderful stage. It always comes with Lambert, which is its basis.
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But this shaders that simulate reflection rather than transmission of light. Transparency is needed to simulate light transmission.
Of course, these are all rough simulations of what is really happening, and for a realistic simulation you need ray tracing, at least for the reflection and transmission of light.
These are surface shaders, there are a bunch of other things that are also called shaders. HDR is not just beauty, but how light works in real life, with a brightness range greater than 1. What is called the HDR effect in games is a regular bloom. The program must know where the brightness is greater than 1 in order to correctly apply overexposure to precisely such areas.
Bottom line: shaders are the technological basis of the image, and are directly related to the quality of graphics. A good soup can only be made with good ingredients! :)