Request: New Shader engine

[monstergert]

So there are a lot of players on Blockland who can't see the shadows from the shadow update, including me. Well, I found a game which does in fact have awesome shadows that I CAN see. The game is called Cubelands. I'm not a modder or a coder or anything, so I don't know if this is possible since Cubelands is a browser-based game from the Unity engine. If Badspot reads this, can you tell me what you think please?

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[Chrono]

I'm going to assume Cubelands is a voxel based game with lighting that's only calculated every time there's a block update.

[Buu]

cubelands is a minecraft rip off, unless its that rpg-ish game

[Yola²]

It's not as easy as you think it is.

TGE is already edited so much, switching another engine would take ages.

[Zeblote]

I'm going to assume Cubelands is a voxel based game with lighting that's only calculated every time there's a block update.

Yeh, it is
That's actually a good idea
Why can't we render a super high-res shadow map once we finished ghosting the bricks (assuming noone modifies the bricks during i.e. a TDM), and then only render shadows for players and stuff?

[Altiris]

Yeh, it is
That's actually a good idea
Why can't we render a super high-res shadow map once we finished ghosting the bricks (assuming noone modifies the bricks during i.e. a TDM), and then only render shadows for players and stuff?

TGE has support for Baked Shadows, so there's a good chance Badspot could write his own baked shadows script.

[Chrono]

Yeh, it is
That's actually a good idea
Why can't we render a super high-res shadow map once we finished ghosting the bricks (assuming noone modifies the bricks during i.e. a TDM), and then only render shadows for players and stuff?

Because our sun moves and even if it only takes effect when day/night cycle is off, it would have to re-render a high quality shadow every time a brick is planted, deleted, unrendered, fakekilled, colored, etc.

[Xanderian]

Are you kidding? I'm pretty sure that's already been asked about a million times. Just like to all of them, the answer is going to be the same, rude, answer. forget, no.