Soft Particles, Dynamic Lighting and DX9 wonderfulness in FW:ToW

Most impressive work guys. Well done.

LancerSolurus wrote:
Thanks for the info, deferred rendering is one of the reasons I love playing Stalker so much (and it has a good storyline). Have you considered adding soft or PCF shadowing to it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_mapping

Its definately on my list, however normal mapping has priority right now

Anyways, LS, didnt you implement deferred rendering yourself in GE? I thought I was reading something about it the other day in your changelogs…

Not yet, its on my todo list. Still using forward rendering atm. Once it hits 4-5 lights there is a noticable lag from it. So far I have specular mapping, normal mapping, 2 types of detail mapping and glow mapping. I played with parallax occlusion mapping but without LOD mip mapping it’s a frame rate killer. Ive done a little bit of reseach and it is recommended to switch it back to normal mapping after a certain distance from the viewer.

So, soes this mean i should start adding lights to everything so that im ready for the freeworlds release? Or will it be awhile before release? Also through this plugin, will it be possible to have shadows in space?

Ozed

Sometimes its best not to give any previews, as you have seen here the badgering isn’t going to stop

I’m enjoying all the progress reports. I think that this is a great example of just how a mod should be developed. I’d go as far as to say they’re doing a far better job of selling themselves than many corporates can do with financial backing. Very impressed. I’m sure they realise that there will always be questions, but I think they’re doing a good job of not giving too much away in that department. Just enough to wet the appetite.

Again, great job, Freelancer never looked that nice…and I never waited so much a full conversion of Freelancer

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