Patent ID: 6924815

Claim:
An image generating system comprising: a texture memory storing therein textures to be mapped on the surface of an object placed in a three-dimensional virtual space; a first controller reading original patterns of the object as a first texture from a record medium, and storing the read first texture into the texture memory; a second controller generating as a second texture images of environmental things except ambient light emitting sources when viewed from the object, and generating as a third texture images of the light emitting sources and shadows of certain environmental things, which block light emitted from the light emitting sources among the environmental things, and storing the generated second and third textures into the texture memory; and a third controller reading and synthesizing the first, second and third textures stored in the texture memory, and mapping the synthesized texture on the object placed in the three-dimensional virtual space; wherein the second and third textures are generated at the time of a move relative to the environmental things of an object for reflection placed in the three-dimensional virtual space.