Rendering Resources

Normal Mapping

• http://antongerdelan.net/opengl/normal_mapping.html
• http://www.opengl-tutorial.org/intermediate-tutorials/tutorial-13-normal-mapping/
• http://aras-p.info/texts/CompactNormalStorage.html

Deferred Rendering

• http://gamedevcoder.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/light-pre-pass-vs-deferred-renderer-part-1/
• http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems2/gpugems2_chapter09.html
• http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Components/RenderTech-DeferredLighting.html
• http://www.slideshare.net/guest11b095/a-bit-more-deferred-cry-engine3

Lighting

• http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/deferred-lighting-approaches/
• Point Lights
• User friendly light attenuation

Coordinate Manipulations

• Reconstructing Position from Depth
• A related opinion/optimization plus info on linear depth
• The monster thread about it
• [Followup article in greater detail] (http://mynameismjp.wordpress.com/2010/09/05/position-from-depth-3/)
• Formula for linearizing depth from depth texture

Miscellaneous

• OpenGL coordinates