Systems and methods for dynamically, automatically generating and/or filtering shadow maps in a video game

A computer readable non-transitory medium comprising a plurality of executable programmatic instructions wherein, when said plurality of executable programmatic instructions are executed by a processor in a computing device, a process is performed for modulating a resolution of each of a plurality of shadows corresponding to a plurality of lights in a frame of a scene in a video game, wherein the plurality of executable programmatic instructions are at least partially executed by a module in a player's computing device in data communication with at least one host computer and using a memory in the player's computing device, and wherein the process comprises:

• defining an amount of the memory to be allocated for generating the plurality of shadows;
• determining a size of each of a plurality of shadow maps corresponding to the plurality of lights;
• determining an overall size of the plurality of shadow maps;
• determining a composite scaling factor for each of the plurality of lights;
• and
• during runtime of the video game, uniformly applying the composite scaling factor across each of the plurality of shadows maps when the overall size exceeds a predefined threshold percentage of the allocated memory.