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Topic: Floating Shadows?

R0CKY~rb

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Category: SoFII General Posted: Sunday, Jun. 23, 2002 10:21 am
I don't see how the shadows bug has anything to do with the spec of the machine, it's a coding bug as far as I can see. And it does have a playability benefit as some have already said. For example in the jungle standing outside the cave I could see the bad guys shadow just a second before he emerged. I didn't know other games had the same problem though.
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TS | Thomas~rb

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Category: SoFII General Posted: Sunday, Jun. 23, 2002 01:55 pm
Yeah, its a Quake 3 engine thing I guess. The stencil shadows are just done poorly. In fact the only game which I thought had excellent shadows was Operation Flashpoint, though even in that shadows were still a bit prone to a few miscasting errors.
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Posted: Sunday, Jun. 23, 2002 02:18 pm

Quote (TS | Thomas @ June 23 2002, 08:55 am)

In fact the *only* game which I thought had excellent shadows was Operation Flashpoint,

There is another game that shows shadows properly *cough* *cough*

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TS | Thomas~rb

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Posted: Sunday, Jun. 23, 2002 07:55 pm

Quote (R0CKY @ June 23 2002, 09:18 am)

Quote (TS | Thomas @ June 23 2002, 08:55 am)

In fact the *only* game which I thought had excellent shadows was Operation Flashpoint,

There is another game that shows shadows properly *cough* *cough*

Doom 3 won't be out for quite some time

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Pagan~rb

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Category: SoFII General Posted: Sunday, Jun. 23, 2002 08:14 pm
Shadow settings (alter cg_shadows) 0 - Off (in menu) 1 - Blob (in menu) 2 - Stencil (not in menu) 3 - Projection (in menu) These are all virtually unaltered from Q3. Stencil shadows look really cool when they work - which is less than projection. They also suck up a lot more cycles. AFAIK, projection shadows only really screw up when the NPC is sitting or near to a ledge?
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Posted: Sunday, Jun. 23, 2002 09:59 pm

Quote (Pagan @ June 23 2002, 3:14 pm)

These are all virtually unaltered from Q3. Stencil shadows look really cool when they work - which is less than projection. They also suck up a lot more cycles.

AFAIK, projection shadows only really screw up when the NPC is sitting or near to a ledge?

Thought the only difference between 2 & 3 were the "softness" or not, of the shadow? Anyway, can check that later