NAME
lit - computes lighting coefficients for ambient, diffuse, and specular lighting contributions
SYNOPSIS
float4 lit(float NdotL, float NdotH, float m); half4 lit(half NdotL, half NdotH, half m); fixed4 lit(fixed NdotL, fixed NdotH, fixed m);PARAMETERS
- NdotL
The dot product of a normalized surface normal and a normalized light vector.
- NdotH
The dot product of a normalized surface normal and a normalized half-angle vector (for Blinn-style specular) where the half-angle vector is the sum of the normalized view vector and normalized light vector. Alternatively, the dot product of a normlized light vector and a normalized view vector reflected by a normalized surface normal could be used (for Phong-style specular).
- m
A specular exponent, typically described as a measure of shininess. The larger the exponent, the shinier the specular highlight, the smaller the exponent, the duller the specular highlight.
DESCRIPTION
The lit function is a helper function useful to compute lighting coefficients for ambient, diffuse, and specular lighting contributions. The function efficiently maps to a native instruction for most GPUs.
lit returns a 4-component vector arranged as follows:
- x
The ambient coefficient that is always 1.0.
- y
The diffuse coefficient that is zero if NdotL is less than zero, and NdotL otherwise.
- z
The specular coefficient that is zero if either NdotL or NdotH are less than zero, and otherwise NdotH raised to the power m.
- w
Always 1.0.
REFERENCE IMPLEMENTATION
lit accepting
parameters could be implemented this way: float4 lit(float NdotL, float NdotH, float m) { float specular = (NdotL > 0) ? pow(max(0.0, NdotH), m); return float4(1.0, max(0.0, NdotL), specular, 1.0); }PROFILE SUPPORT
lit is supported in all profiles.
SEE ALSO