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Shadows (and/or Shaders) have no intentional gaming use at our current state
Trogtor:
Bump.
--- 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 only problem with baking is that it doesn't change lighting period. So players will still be lit up with everything else
Mysteroo:
Meh.. I disagree.
I don't think BL looks bad without shaders. I mean we were fine without them for 19 versions, why suddenly now that we have shaders do we think it's ugly?
And besides, there are a lot of people who can't use shaders, yes, but there isn't any evidence that it's most users. And how can you expect a game with graphics like this to run on some intel card or something? It isn't perfect, but on max shaders it looks pretty great imo
BuildaBox:
--- Quote from: Mysteroo on March 18, 2013, 04:48:49 PM ---Meh.. I disagree.
I don't think BL looks bad without shaders. I mean we were fine without them for 19 versions, why suddenly now that we have shaders do we think it's ugly?
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That has nothing to do with the OP.
--- Quote from: Mysteroo on March 18, 2013, 04:48:49 PM ---And besides, there are a lot of people who can't use shaders, yes, but there isn't any evidence that it's most users. And how can you expect a game with graphics like this to run on some intel card or something? It isn't perfect, but on max shaders it looks pretty great imo
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And Intel cards aren't bad. Do you have any idea what you're talking about?
Mysteroo:
--- Quote from: BuildaBox on March 18, 2013, 04:59:53 PM ---That has nothing to do with the OP.
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Even if you ignore all the pictures comparing shadows to no-shadows
--- Quote from: Trogtor on March 17, 2013, 10:03:33 PM ---Therefore our developers kept the option to keep the shaders "Off" which can change the graphics of the game very much, and it's not so pretty.
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--- Quote from: BuildaBox on March 18, 2013, 04:59:53 PM ---And Intel cards aren't bad. Do you have any idea what you're talking about?
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tbh probably not. But I've heard people bashing intel so much since the update that I'm inclined to believe they're bad.
But it really doesn't matter. I haven't looked into it much and as you said, I probably don't know what I'm talking about. It's just my opinion
Trogtor:
--- Quote from: Mysteroo on March 18, 2013, 05:17:50 PM ---tbh probably not. But I've heard people bashing intel so much since the update that I'm inclined to believe they're bad.
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blockland lighting was ugly to start with
look at Non shader picture number 3