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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain [Fan Art Too]

« on: February 14, 2012, 11:49:26 PM »

Would it be a significant amount of work to add a setting that allows brick/projectile lights to cast shadows?

Yes.

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain [Fan Art Too]

« on: February 14, 2012, 10:26:59 PM »

Can we have an option to adjust the level of brightness we want for the shaders to our liking? Some people want super bright while others want sort of shiny.

I'm sorry if you mentioned this before, I can't find it.

Good question. The final version will be carefully tweaked, and there will probably be some way to tweak it if you want.

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain [Fan Art Too]

« on: February 14, 2012, 09:36:58 PM »

BTW for those of you not reading the OP, this is offtopic:

"Let's keep both interiors and terrain AND shadows and shaders." -- Check the thread title for a hint on this.

Not having that discussion in this thread.

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain [Fan Art Too]

« on: February 14, 2012, 09:23:04 PM »

Question for kompressor:  with projectiles that have light glow as defined in the scripts have shadows?

How slow are you prepared for the game to run?

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain [Fan Art Too]

« on: February 14, 2012, 08:20:13 PM »

This not good fan art ITT.

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain

« on: February 14, 2012, 07:41:39 PM »

Good fan art ITT.

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain

« on: February 13, 2012, 06:45:34 PM »

A lot of games?
Blockland currently has settings for player shadow's to adjust the quality. GTA IV has settings to adjust shadow quality too. The highest setting makes the shadow's edges sharper, and the lowest settings makes the edges pixelated.

That is a quality setting, it runs faster and looks worse at low quality, runs slower and looks better at high quality.

In other words, you can trade correctness for speed. We will have this setting, it is important for people with slower systems.

However we are not going to support tunable soft shadows (where they run at same speed/quality but the look can be tweaked).

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain

« on: February 13, 2012, 06:24:24 PM »

Yeah true...

Can't deny it'd be neat though.

So would realtime global illumination on a netbook. :(

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain

« on: February 13, 2012, 06:18:41 PM »

Kompressor, question, will we be able to adjust how sharp/blurry the shadows are.  Like, a slider that allows you to set the detail or blurry amount.

So far all we've gotten is DOF's, so I would like to know for sure.

Can you give an example of a game which does this?

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain

« on: February 13, 2012, 06:14:03 PM »

This is the true art.

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain

« on: February 12, 2012, 08:56:55 PM »

Will there be any sort of Closed/Open Beta for this?
If so, how would you sort people who would be allowed to join?

We will post a threadif we are going to do something like that.

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain

« on: February 12, 2012, 06:41:41 PM »

hey kompressor I wonder if you would make this ideal in this topic below
http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=185417.0

This not a feature request thread.

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain

« on: February 12, 2012, 06:15:59 PM »

Hey komp I wonder, did getting the shaders cost money or was it a free upgrade kind of thing?

I wrote them myself, from scratch.

This seems like a great change. Will this allow for dynamic change in time/skybox?

That would be cool!

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain

« on: February 11, 2012, 08:46:26 PM »

I can understand not checking the 143 pages, but that's been meantoned on the previous page.

Or the first post.

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Development / Re: 2012/02/05 - Shadows and Shaders vs. Interiors and Terrain

« on: February 11, 2012, 08:15:33 PM »

Quote from OP:

"I will be moderating this thread aggressively to keep the discussion on track."

In other words, no you don't get to have opinions in this thread. You can have opinions everywhere else on the whole forum system, but this thread is my thread and you are a guest. So keep it on track and pay attention.