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Shadows (and/or Shaders) have no intentional gaming use at our current state
Filipe:
Baked shadows are really the way to fix all of this then
Chrono:
--- Quote from: Filipe on March 18, 2013, 01:48:02 AM ---Baked shadows are really the way to fix all of this then
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Then you think of all the different ways bricks update, and then the day/night cycle.
SirLancelot7:
--- Quote from: Chrono on March 18, 2013, 01:59:47 AM ---Then you think of all the different ways bricks update, and then the day/night cycle.
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Could you bake all the shadows included in the DNC? And obviously baking would only work on servers that don't have frequent changes/additions to the build. But it would allow for someone to host say.. A stealth DM in which shadows were required.
Chrono:
--- Quote from: SirLancelot7 on March 18, 2013, 02:51:48 AM ---Could you bake all the shadows included in the DNC? And obviously baking would only work on servers that don't have frequent changes/additions to the build. But it would allow for someone to host say.. A stealth DM in which shadows were required.
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The problem with having it 'only work in certain situations' is that it makes a stuffload of complicated code for the engine, and could possibly take Badspot quite a while to implement multiple lighting engines in a single game.
As for a stealth DM, just make it dark whether shaders are on or off, then use brick lights around the build.
Zeblote:
--- Quote from: Trogtor on March 17, 2013, 10:10:52 PM ---You make a valid point but its not technically "cheating" it's just exploiting.
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Where's the difference
--- Quote from: Chrono on March 17, 2013, 11:50:07 PM ---It's kind of annoying that us people with better computers actually get a less exciting experience though.
We turn on shaders because the game looks nice.
Suddenly we're in the dark, can't see stuff, and getting wrecked by people with stuffty computers, or decided to lower a setting.
Though in some cases it's the host's fault, they didn't adjust the settings properly, especially for something that's a pure interior build.
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Shaders also change colors
Take the default lighting, and a gray wall
The wall looks gray
Now turn off shaders
The wall looks brown-ish ugly