POWERVR Insider City Demo

The skyscrapers rendered by this demo illustrate the shader capabilities of the POWERVR SGX family. The buildings feature accurate multiple light-source per-pixel Phong lighting, including parallax bump-mapping, detail textures, specular highlights utilising specular power and specular level or colour maps, per-pixel fog and environment mapping utilising cube maps.

The realism and beauty of the scene is boosted by the use of a post-processing bloom effect: implemented by raising the rendered pixel values to a power, then using the automatic MIP-map generation functionality of the hardware to create blurred variants of this, the result of which is summed to the original render, causing the brightest highlights of the scene to glow.

Right click the download link below and 'Select Save target as ...' to download the demo to your computer. To play the file you need a suitable media player, e.g. Windows Media player.

 Download SGX City Demo