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'''Half Lambert lighting''' is a technique designed to prevent the rear of an object losing its shape and looking too flat. | '''Half Lambert lighting''' is a technique designed to prevent the rear of an object losing its shape and looking too flat. | ||
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To soften the diffuse contribution from local lights, the dot product from the [[wikipedia:Lambert's cosine law|Lambertian model]] is scaled by ½, add ½ and squared. The result is that this dot product, which normally lies in the range of -1 to +1, is instead in the range of 0 to 1 and has a more pleasing falloff. | To soften the diffuse contribution from local lights, the dot product from the [[wikipedia:Lambert's cosine law|Lambertian model]] is scaled by ½, add ½ and squared. The result is that this dot product, which normally lies in the range of -1 to +1, is instead in the range of 0 to 1 and has a more pleasing falloff. | ||
Revision as of 00:17, 7 January 2024
Half Lambert lighting is a technique designed to prevent the rear of an object losing its shape and looking too flat.
Half Lambert is a completely non-physical technique[Clarify] and gives a purely percieved visual enhancement and is an example of a forgiving lighting model.
Games
Implementation
To soften the diffuse contribution from local lights, the dot product from the Lambertian model is scaled by ½, add ½ and squared. The result is that this dot product, which normally lies in the range of -1 to +1, is instead in the range of 0 to 1 and has a more pleasing falloff.
In the original 
Half-Life, where this diffuse Half Lambert term was the only term in most of the model lighting, it kept the characters in particular from being lit exclusively by a constant ambient term on the back side with respect to a given light source.
In 
Source, Half Lambert lighting can most often be seen being used on the characters face materials. It is enabled by the use of $halflambert within a material's VMT file.
See also
- $halflambert - VMT shader parameter to enable Half-Lambert lighting.