Wrote an article describing how I faked the plant shadows in Garden Wars so that I could have many of them running on mobile. A little specific again, but hopefully still interesting:
Article: Fake Shadow Rendering for hundreds of plants on mobile
It seems that the link to this article is dead. Did anyone archive it anywhere, I wonder?
I’m very interested in it, since it’s so old it must be using forward shading and all “modern” solutions I’ve seen use deferred decals which I want to avoid if possible.
Since that link is dead, I’m going to post a link to the page itself:
I was able to find it somehow so let me know if the link doesn’t work.