[T-LoW]

This thread now is my browser welcome page.

[Nuke]

il believe it when i see something other than lame internet memes.

[Dragon]

Valathil is doing it, that's enough for me to believe it.

[bigchunk1]

I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking at, but I get the feeling it's something really cool.

[MatthTheGeek]

It's Valathil.

I can't really imagine any way it could not be something at least really cool.

[Nuke]

i dont have any doubt that he could pull it off. i was more disturbed by the large number of bull**** posts on a buisness as usual part of the forum, as if kiddies wanted to bolster their post count.

[mjn.mixael]

i dont have any doubt that he could pull it off. i was more disturbed by the large number of bull**** posts on a buisness as usual part of the forum, as if kiddies wanted to bolster their post count.

 

[Sushi]

Speaking of godrays...

I'm not sure what it would take for FSO, but I know Oblivion was able to get them pretty much just by adding a shader.
(http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/578929766431974474/83DB19F52B3628559D0E58BFDF5391D82B394DA0/)

I don't suppose it would be that "easy" would it?

Swifty, you can have that one.

[MatthTheGeek]

i dont have any doubt that he could pull it off. i was more disturbed by the large number of bull**** posts on a buisness as usual part of the forum, as if kiddies wanted to bolster their post count.

Please, stop derailing this thread. We're having a perfectly sane discussion here.

[Flipside]

I bet he's going to use soft particles for it.

[pecenipicek]

il believe it when i see something other than lame internet memes.

BELIEVE IT
http://imagebin.org/173114

i'll believe you once we have both self-shadows and cast shadows


also, i take it that light intensity doesnt do **** all yet to affect the shadows, its just either "fully lit" or "fully dark" with that nasty iffy horriclippy lack-of-bias on the transition area, right?

[TwentyPercentCooler]

If Val can't do it, it probably can't be done.

We're all rooting for you! 

[sigtau]

the above image posted by Val = realtime shadow maps being generated in-game (I'm 99% sure)

As long as the shaders render the glowmaps *after* applying the shadows, this will be absolutely perfect

[Kobrar44]

Sooo old tilemapped hangars gonna be dark as hell. Time to upgrade some models.

[Herra Tohtori]

Sooo old tilemapped hangars gonna be dark as hell. Time to upgrade some models.

Hangars should have baked lighting via glow maps in the first place. If this enables us to make enclosed spaces actually dark, instead of the one side of the cavern facing the light source being inexplicably lit up, it will be an awesome improvement for hangars as well.

[Colonol Dekker]

Sooo old tilemapped hangars gonna be dark as hell. Time to upgrade some models.

Hangars should have baked lighting via glow maps in the first place. If this enables us to make enclosed spaces actually dark, instead of the one side of the cavern facing the light source being inexplicably lit up, it will be an awesome improvement for hangars as well.

Wing commander Saga's gonna be :3 SUH-WEEEEEEEEET.

[The E]

Sooo old tilemapped hangars gonna be dark as hell. Time to upgrade some models.

Hangars should have baked lighting via glow maps in the first place. If this enables us to make enclosed spaces actually dark, instead of the one side of the cavern facing the light source being inexplicably lit up, it will be an awesome improvement for hangars as well.

Wing commander Saga's gonna be :3 SUH-WEEEEEEEEET.

Depends on a) Valathil finishing this and b) the WCSaga team being able to copy/incorporate his efforts.

[Colonol Dekker]

It'll either be a script/shader/incorporated into nightly builds/trunk/whatever. And a glowmapped hangar subsystem.

I'm confident Mister Buzzkill

[The E]

Just being realistic here. I have no idea how much the WCS codebase has diverged from FSO trunk and I know there have been a LOT of changes on our side after the fork. I would be somewhat surprised if a WCS build could run a mission built with current FSO in mind.

[swashmebuckle]

More babies must be named after this man.