[aldo_14]

Independence Day........

[Falcon]

I can see my house from here!

[.::Tin Can::.]

IT WILL FEEL JUST LIKE THAT! OMGWTFBBQ!

[vyper]

[q]OMGWTFBBQ![/q]

Oh yer a tard but that's funny...

Anyway, I like the idea of some nice stencil shadows. Would be cool to see a big Sathanas shape shadow fall over the colossus or whatnot.

[.::Tin Can::.]

My "tard" attitude makes others laugh.

[Inquisitor]

On topic please.

[SadisticSid]

Originally posted by daveb
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No doubt, Freespace will live on for a heckuva lot longer because of your efforts.

Hell yeah

Certainly I don't think I'd be as enthusiastic about modding Inferno if the guys hadn't upgraded FS2 so much. The addition of new features and engine enhancements coming into play when you see your ships kicking the hell out of each other during your missions is great.

[CP5670]

yeah they have really done an amazing job with this; I doubt I would still be playing and modding this game if the SCP wasn't around.

I think the shadow effect is likely to get top priority since it's coming from dave.

[Carl]

Originally posted by daveb
Just wanted to say - I'm totally blown away by the stuff you guys are doing. You guys have gone absolutely bonkers with this stuff.  Never in my wildest dreams did I think the source would be this useful.  I'm also glad that as far as I can tell, no one has been permanently scarred from exposure to it  

Particularly neat is the whole Linux thing. I know I was down on it at the onset, but you guys have really kicked ass. Shows what the hell I know

No doubt, Freespace will live on for a heckuva lot longer because of your efforts.

Wow. Praise from Caesar.

[Krackers87]

Originally posted by daveb

So, now I'll go ahead and register my own personal fanboy request : Man oh man would I love to see real stencil shadows from big ships. That's one uber-dramatic element FS2 never really had - the proper LOOMING presence of the big guys reflected in the lighting on the little guys.

Anyways - rock on!

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,16929.0.html

*Jumps up and down franticly pointing at his post*

I even explained exactly how they could be implemented, with several variations.

[Bobboau]

well I'm halfway there, it could be a bit more effichent, but it isn't as bad as the screen sudjests, we all know what takeing screen shots does to the frame rate, also ignore that screwy planet in the background.

[Thorn]

Will it be possible to soften/resize the shadows with distance, or will they be the same at any range?

[Knight Templar]

Oh, very good idea indeed. Nice to see you around Dave

[Flipside]

I think cone shadows are a bit harder to do, though increasing the transparency of the shadow with distance from the source would be cool

[Bobboau]

soft shadows are imposable with the stencel techniqe.

[Flipside]

Ah... I see... actually, thinking about it, Shadows only go in a cone if the light source is smaller than the object which is throwing the shadow iirc?

[Kazan]

shadows go in a cone if the source and the caster are two different sizes

if caster > source then cone(x) < cone(x+1)
if caster < source then cone(x) > cone(x+1)

[Flipside]

Thought so.

Will only LOD0 be using this? Some of those lower lods might cast some really wierd shadows?

[Trivial Psychic]

This may be what you were discussing regarding "soft shadows", but is that refuring to the UMBRA, PENUMBRA effect?  Since the "sun" in a mission isn't a point-source light, then it will cast a dark shadow that's smaller than the object casting it, with a lighter shadow around it, which is much larger than the object casting it.  The farther away from the object, the smaller the dark shadow is, and the larger the grey shadow is.

On another note, will shadows be feasable in a nebular environment, where gas behind an object (in relation to the sun) is not illuminated?

Later!

[WMCoolmon]

I was just browsing through the code tour the other day, looking to see what we'd implemented and what we'd missed. There was one thing that stuck out in particular...the half-finished demo recording system.


//runs
//Comes back to give a thumbs-up to Bobboau on his stencil-shadows work
//runs