Atrus' Study. This was where Atrus did some of his experiments and writing.

     In this room I did several effects. The hologram machine was pretty interesting, we created a mist that would be the medium that the hologram was projected into. Then we drew a box into the scene that was invisible, but would create an opaque alpha. We then drew the mist into the scene, followed by the character that would multiply itself by the destination alpha. It was a very cool effect.
     I did the glare around the lights, and my favorite is the shadows on some of the objects. Our engine used pre-generated shadow maps, and real-time vertex lighting, neither of which would do real-time shadows. So I matted the objects, rendered them from a general light position using a panorama renderer, applied the textures to duplicate geometry that I pushed away from their originals, applied and animated the UV coordinates. It was not a fast process, but worked out very well!
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