[Omniscaper]

That was the first build. The second produced stranger results......

[Setekh]

Dude, now I know why Bungie's so excited about putting self-casting shadows into Halo 2.

[Cabbie]

Beautiful!!! Great work man!

[AqueousShadow]

In your face, Demon **** (DS, heh, ya know that fag who's well...yeah)

[Rictor]

good work Bob, as always. Aside from Tenebrae for Quake, I don't know of any game engine that has been more modernized than Freespace 2, thanks largely to your efforts.

How much of a slowdown do you think this will produce?

[Rol]

Bobboau is it possible that ships made shadows on other ships
or that it is ever possible that other ships and weapons fire will be reflected by the hull?
if you get that to work i will build a temple for you:)

[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by Setekh
Dude, now I know why Bungie's so excited about putting self-casting shadows into Halo 2.

Hah! SCP > Halo 2

[Rictor]

Originally posted by Rol
Bobboau is it possible that ships made shadows on other ships
or that it is ever possible that other ships and weapons fire will be reflected by the hull?
if you get that to work i will build a temple for you:)

Not much use in a space sim I think, space being mostly empty, so that it is unlikely that a shadow will be reflected on another ship, and even then, it flicks by so fast. I can see how it useful for ground-based games, such as Doom, especially when they are mostly indoors.

But nevertheless, the self shadowing itself is worth it. Eye-candy ahoy.

[Rol]

oh i overlooked that..
but think on an escort mission when you fly with your wingmans ner a big ship and there are shadows of all ships... i would like it:)

another thing .. i remember a mission in freelancer were a prison ship is damaged and have a plasma leak or something and smoke come out of the hull and create a small lokal nebular ... is that possible?

[ChronoReverse]

Have you thought about "cheating" a little and limiting the distance a shadow can be cast depending on the size of the casting object?  After all, the shadow of a pegasus on a capship will be pretty much invisible from even just 500m out.

[WMCoolmon]

Or using different LODs depending on how far the ship is from the camera.

[Bobboau]

there is no culling or anything in ether build, I'd say the first one would probly be a better representation of what the frame rate will be like

[Bobboau]

ok, this will defenately be the last build I post on the matter, I'm prety sure everything looks right (as far as placement of shadows is concerned), this friday, I will start to actualy implement a final implementation.

http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/blackwater/fs2_open_shadow3.zip

[Sigma957]

Cool.

[Ashrak]

ok the ones that worked are MAJOR COOL!

[übermetroid]

Originally posted by Bobboau
http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/blackwater/fs2_open_shadow3.zip

Testing it and it runs fine.


Fun to play in game.  I did notice that the shadow could go on other ships too, not just cap. ships.  

This is VERY noticable in game.  Looks great!

[MetalDestroyer]

Very IMPRESSIVE !! Good Work Bobboau !!

[KARMA]

Originally posted by Rictor


Not much use in a space sim I think, space being mostly empty, so that it is unlikely that a shadow will be reflected on another ship, and even then, it flicks by so fast. I can see how it useful for ground-based games, such as Doom, especially when they are mostly indoors.

But nevertheless, the self shadowing itself is worth it. Eye-candy ahoy.

well imagine a superstardestroyer warping in and suddenly obscuring EVERYTHING......

@bob...


that rocks!

I suppose you are limiting somewhat the shadows, so that fighters don't project their shadow too far away?
Ohh I only dream to be able to run that build, I really need a new pc:(

[Cabbie]

I just have to say this again! The stuff that you guys do here rivals what the modders of Falcon 4 have accomplished so far! Simply amazing!

[Singh]

you have not seen evil till you have seen the Lilith rotate in the Techroom, it's arms casting strange shadows on it's own, dark hull.

Strangely, the tech-room doesn't work at 640x480 for this build. I haven't tried it in-game though :/