Friday update and discussions 2011-02-25

Originally Posted by B25Mitch

Hi everyone. I see there's been some discussion about the gap in shadows, close to the base of the object casting them.



This is an inherent limitation of texture-projection type shadowing. Here is a quick example I did in Blender, also using a low-resolution texture projection shadow:



Notice how the light creeps underneath the wall (yes, the wall is attached to the ground). This can be reduced using a 'bias' factor, however this of course will drain more resources from the system. The simple fact is that this sort of effect will always be present to some extent when using texture-projection shadowing.

Now take another look at the first screenshot. The planes that are further away have a worse gap in the shadow and lower shadow map resolution than the plane in the foreground. This indicates that the team are well aware of the issue and have done everything they can to minimize it.

Well done Mitch. You're a guy worth listening to.

[zakkandrachoff]

loock at this link.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...id=13883518665

will be great have take off in a raining day (not hazy) and that willl be wahter in the airfield.

by the way, i dont see soo much raining pics of Cliffs of Dover. !!!

will be nice fly over england whit finest rain (not strng wind)

[McHilt]

Originally Posted by domian

The thing with the shadows do not care! Such a nitpicker xxxx...

Might be domian, but bringing it up (in a positive and constructive way like Skarphol) is also a way to learn things, like in this case
Mitch explains something many people didn't know. It gains a better understanding of what Oleg and crew are doing which hopefully leads to a lot less whining... hope folks understand that.

Cheers

[Sauf]

Originally Posted by McHilt

Might be domian, but bringing it up (in a positive and constructive way like Skarphol) is also a way to learn things, like in this case
Mitch explains something many people didn't know. It gains a better understanding of what Oleg and crew are doing which hopefully leads to a lot less whining... hope folks understand that.

Cheers

Well said Mr McHilt

[Peffi]

[QUOTE=BadAim;228670]

Originally Posted by Peffi

EXCELLENT! Now that's more like it, a beautiful example of a compound whine: whiner complaining about whiner complaining about whiners.

Bad Aim; your name suits you. You just placed yourself on the wiener list togeteher with Skoshi Tiger... (don't know why I even bother 2 answer u guys... )