Hey! I''d like to do specular lighting on a not-that-fine meshed sphere. When I use standard (per vertex) specular lighting, the result looks bad. What I could possibly do is to use vertex/fragment programs to really compute per-pixel specular lighting. But I don''t want to do that, since I have a GeForce 2 with no fragment shaders. Is there a possibility to fake per-pixel specular lighting by maybe cleverly using some light map?

You could try using a cube map with the specular lobe rendered into one of the faces. Use a texture matrix (or a vertex shader) to rotate the vertex normals into the cube map space, taking into account the orientation of the light to the surface.

If you see what I mean.

I think you can reach exponential factor 16 with NV_RC. For anything more you''ll need multipass. Or you could use cube map or even sphere map to fake it.

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