Shadows (and/or Shaders) have no intentional gaming use at our current state

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Mysteroo:

--- Quote from: Marcem on March 18, 2013, 11:41:42 PM ---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.

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Unfortunately I don't think they're planning on updating the shaders any time soon. I imagine that running BL on torque engine has made some pretty hard obstacles to get over in making good looking shadows and shaders, what we have now may sort of be the limit to how good they can get. Unless we were to switch engines, which I doubt will happen.

If I'm wrong on this feel free to correct me, I really don't know much about the engine

Shadowed999:
>Turn on the "fog-of-war"
>???
>Profit

I mean really, if you want to limit the player's view of something, just turn the fog on(or is it visible distance down?). It's not the player's fault for not being able to run shaders, they just have requirements that the computer can't meet. This is not "cheating".

joe411:
I keep it off because
1. It's gets blockland laggy.
2. In some buildings it can extremely dark with shaders on without a light built in or your light on.
3.They look very ugly and pixelated.
I want the maps back.

nixton:
I just wish that there is a way to adjust the level of PC technology involved in running shaders so other people with crappy computers can run it. I don't know what's the problem with BL's shaders because I play games like GTA, Skyrim, and other high-quality games with shadows and shaders on but they don't seem to reduce the gaming performance wheras BL just completely kills the FPS.

StrangerManger:

--- Quote from: Trogtor on March 17, 2013, 10:17:42 PM ---We could if it was a required graphics option but since our younger community do not have the ability to purchase hardware for it, Blockland wouldn't make much money and would have a bad rating from a younger community.

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You say "Our younger community", as if that doesn't describe the entire community. Seriously, I was 11 when I first picked up this game, and I have yet to meet another person who isn't five years old.
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