Mastodawn

@ado_tan On your https://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2020/12/29/graphics-studies-compilation/ page, I'm super curious about the bottom left cubic looking thing in the title image. Do you know which study that is from?

Rendering in games can be a complex topic, different approaches with their own tradeoffs are available, new techniques arise, others fall out of …

Adrian Courrèges

@nick @ado_tan my guess is that the cube is an environment map, used to add some detail to specular reflective shaders

@Rhevian @nick Yes that's a cubemap used in GTA V for reflections. You can see it on this page: https://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/11/02/gta-v-graphics-study/

The Grand Theft Auto series has come a long way since the first opus came out back in 1997. About 2 years ago, Rockstar released GTA V. The …

Adrian Courrèges

@ado_tan @Rhevian Aah thank you both! I'm attuned to anything cubic right now, so that's much appreciated