[mjn.mixael]

Who was that naysayer again? 

[rscaper1070]

Wow! Consider my mind blown away. Excellent work!

[Valathil]

Wow! Consider my mind blown away. Excellent work!

BOOM HEADSHOT

[Reprobator]

Keep it up bro!

We'll soon be able to make some spot light turett to enlight the surrounding!

[Alan Bolte]

I usually prefer not to make spammy over-reaction posts, but my actual out-load words on viewing that video were, "wait wait wait wait WHOA WHOA WHOA." Just sayin'.

[Nuke]

so far, so good.

[sigtau]

ngharrrfflllrbb

Valathil, please don't ever disappear from the internet.  We need you.

[Nyctaeus]

BELIEVE IT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E1Sr-ud5zk&hd=1

You're a god *___*

[JCDNWarrior]

Awesome work! It made me think back of the impressive ship renders from FS1 in particular. To think i'd see the day. I look forward to see this in game on my screen

[Bobboau]

so what method are you using? depth fail stencil shadows?

[Commander Zane]

I'm simply speechless. I'm out of words to say.

[Dragon]

I love it.

[Sushi]

Very impressive. I look forward to seeing how this goes!

[Trivial Psychic]

Back to topic: I just wonder if there's anything that Valathil couldn't make....

Geomods perhaps?

[mjn.mixael]

Back to topic: I just wonder if there's anything that Valathil couldn't make....

Geomods perhaps?

 

[DaBrain]

Back to topic: I just wonder if there's anything that Valathil couldn't make....

Well... I know a feature that might help out a lot...

SSAO/HDAO, for breaking up the tiled textures of the capships. Although I think baked lightmaps can't hurt either.

Just to give ships more depth.
http://img6.imagebanana.com/img/3r9qq3id/fso_ssao_hdao.jpg
(or for more win with shadows: http://img7.imagebanana.com/img/k5pqlxl5/fso_ssao_sh_ftw.jpg)

Of course it's more interesting for capships, to give them a slightly better sense of scale.
http://img7.imagebanana.com/img/44210u5u/fso_ssao_hdao2.jpg


That's for later though... I think finalizing the shadow implementation will take a while.

Impressive work... as always...

[Valathil]

so what method are you using? depth fail stencil shadows?

Depth fail shadow mapping. I'm now concentrating on getting ships to shadow other ships and getting point light shadows. Depending on the results i may need to either limit the shadow maximum count, move to projective shadow mapping for point lights if resolution problems start to appear or go full out without much performance hit and this game will blow your socks away.

I won't accept any titles other than "Wizard" or "The Wizard" or "Mister Wizard" for Valathil

Zomg, shadows

Yes "The Wizard" would be really nice to have. But im not begging for it.

[torc]

c'mon Valathil! post some eyecandy! (a new  capship vid  ia apprecaited) 

[DaBrain]

Depth fail shadow mapping. I'm now concentrating on getting ships to shadow other ships and getting point light shadows. Depending on the results i may need to either limit the shadow maximum count, move to projective shadow mapping for point lights if resolution problems start to appear or go full out without much performance hit and this game will blow your socks away.

Wow, you want to add shadows to point lights?
That's might look pretty neat.

[TwentyPercentCooler]

Blown away, sir. Are you sure that's sugar in your coffee and not powdered unicorn horn? There's some serious magic going on here.