How many times do i have to mention that this thing will be tunable and disableable before everyone gets it. This isnt even 50% finished by my reckoning for christ's sake why should i worry about doing fine tune settings now when i havent even figured out to do all kinds of light sources yet. I mean thanks for the suggestions on how to make it more customizable but do you really think im doing this and havent thought about what could be tuned in a feature i completely thought up and implemented by myself? I mean you could have asked anyone a month ago if there would be shadows in fsopen and everybody would have said NO WAI. So really, settle down till i finish it. This is going to take a while. As I said before im doing this alone and i dont have unlimited time to work on this. The Test builds im providing are as a courtesy to the community and a way to test the code on different hardware setups not really a performance test if it can run on integrated intel gpus or the like. So if your pc cant handle this it never will regardless of any parameters i would expose for tuning. Sucks to be you but thats the way it is.
They are merely afraid that if they wait until the feature is complete, and something is missing that they would like implemented, that it would require too much work to add in, and thus not be implemented, wheras if they mention it before the shadows are even halfway done, at least you have seen their suggestion.
So, basically, I think it is "in b4 it requires a re-write" type of deal here, because no one knows when you will reach the point in your coding process where it would be unfeasible to add in their request.
That's what I see, anyways.