[Reprobator]

Oh forgot to try into dense asteroid field 

[Commander Zane]

Those BSG shots are beautiful.

[Dark RevenantX]

Worked and ran nearly perfectly here with everything turned up to max on BP2's intro.  It was glorious.

[Kobrar44]

I cannot see shadows in that cockpit. It is caused by the texture, right? Or am I blind?

[Woolie Wool]

There's not much in that cockpit that could cast a shadow.

[Dragon]

Cockpits should be "highlighted" with a glowmap anyway. Otherwise, you won't be able to see the instruments. It also seems that in these shots, ambient light is pretty high and sun is shining from "above" the cockpit.

[Aardwolf]

Dammit, I'm going to have to try this stuff out... but I haven't been keeping up-to-date with all the updated files and stuff 

[H-Alien]

Shadows work fine overhere on a HD5750 and look great. Performance hit is quite hard (about 50%) but that's to be expected at this stage. What I did notice is that sometimes I see a clear drop in the fps counter while at other times the fps counter shows no drop but the game is extremely sluggish...either the fps counter shows a wrong number or the hitches and stuttering aren't fps related. Will check with msi afterburner aswell.

double checked with msi afterburner and radeon pro. It's a bit of a placebo it seems, whenever the game starts turning sluggish there actually is a slight drop in fps, just not as much that I noticed it in the fps counter. For me the game starts feeling really sluggish when the fps drop from 70 to 60fps. I suppose that's part of the "at your own risk" warning

Great job sofar!

[Cyborg17]

For me the game starts feeling really sluggish when the fps drop from 70 to 60fps.

Some us are just hoping to be able to run the final release at all.

[H-Alien]

Yeah I understand   Do note though that I'm not a fps junky, normally 60 fps is more then fine, in this case however the fps counter says 60 but it feels like 10 fps.  I was only mentioning it because Valathil specifically asked about performance on ati cards in this very early build.

[MatthTheGeek]

[headdie]

OMFG the shadoooowwwnessssss is amazing, once again top Val

[T-LoW]

Making my favorite FS-ship even more awesome.

[Woolie Wool]

Cockpits should be "highlighted" with a glowmap anyway. Otherwise, you won't be able to see the instruments. It also seems that in these shots, ambient light is pretty high and sun is shining from "above" the cockpit.

There is no need to put a glowmap on the entire cockpit, only the parts of the instruments that are illuminated. In my Wings cockpits glows apply only to MFD and other digital displays, warning lights, and the lettering/numbers on analog gauges, not the cockpit structure.

[Woolie Wool]

For me the game starts feeling really sluggish when the fps drop from 70 to 60fps.

What? Most monitors can't even display more than 60 fps.

[Jeryko]

Making my favorite FS-ship even more awesome.

Looks friggen sick.  Cannot wait for a commit.

[Subspace Anomaly]

Well, seems like selfshadowing leaves sometimes zfight artifacts (try herc for example) and FPS drops are quite notable (used  content, without any MVP addons that is), and just looking at wings of seraphs made FPS go way too down.

It's also nice to see you already set up things so you can extend support for other than just "sun" lighting in the future. Hope you won't run into any unexpected problems and will just have fun in enhancing the game.

[Kolgena]

Making my favorite FS-ship even more awesome.

Looks like an offline render. Really impressive, Valathil!

[Mr_Blastman]

What mod is that?

[Zacam]

Mr_Blastman: That would be Blue Planet, likely WiH test shots.