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Shadows (and/or Shaders) have no intentional gaming use at our current state
Altiris:
--- Quote from: Trogtor on March 18, 2013, 10:23:36 PM ---Maybe I was just now able to get a good enough graphics card for them to actually experience them?
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Well you could have always looked at pictures or videos (environmental controls preview by Badspot) but still I mean..it's really late to make a topic about this now, nothing is going to get solved/changed if that is what you are aiming for.
Marcem:
--- 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?
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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It always looked bad without shaders. The old shading system was horrible, and the lack of shadows on bricks and from baked lighting was pretty terrible.
Honestly, the game doesn't look the best right now. The shadowing doesn't have any form of smoothing applied (like CoD or, closest to Blockland, CS:GO), nor can it use multiple light sources. It's also slow and quite low-res. I really hope future updates can focus on improving the speed of shading and the look of it.
Greek2me:
Unfortunately I play on a laptop that can barely run shaders on minimum and I disagree with all of you guys saying that shaders should be required. I would like to agree, but I cannot. Yes, I have a job, but there's a lot more important things that come before paying for a new computer.
Conan:
There needs to be an option to turn on fog but not shaders because goddamn its annoying as forget that fog requires shaders to operate, stopping nonshader people from taking advantage of that feature.
and shaders cannot be default on for a while; too many players can't run it.
chaos 2:
--- Quote from: Zay on March 17, 2013, 10:12:05 PM ---Total support. Even if shaders look pretty, we can't really use them for any gameplay.
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