GPU Gems 2 GPU Gems 2 is now available, right here, online. You can purchase a beautifully printed version  of this book, and others in the series, at a 30% discount courtesy of InformIT and Addison-Wesley.    The CD content, including demos and content, is available here         Chapter 9. Deferred Shading in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.   Oles Shishkovtsov  GSC Game World  This chapter is a post-mortem of almost two years of research and development on a renderer that is based solely on deferred shading and 100 percent dynamic lighting, targeted at high-end GPUs. Because no single solution can suit all needs,  this chapter should not be considered a comprehensive guide to performing deferred shading.  9.1 Introduction  For those who are not familiar with the concepts of deferred shading, we recommend Hargreaves and Harris 2004. This presentation is a good introduction to the basics, and it briefly showcases a number of techniques originally developed for  and used in the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. With deferred shading, during…