Author Topic: Soft shadows (Read 86732 times)

Blockzillahead · September 21, 2013, 08:14:01 PM

Shouldn't soft shadows technically be easier on the computer than sharper shadows?

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.::Taboo::. · September 21, 2013, 08:16:50 PM

No, I imagine it's a similar principle to any sort of blurring effect in a game, it takes that much more rendering power to apply the effect.

[Maxx] · September 21, 2013, 08:17:32 PM

Quote from: swollow on September 21, 2013, 06:39:43 PM

you could have some sort of external launcher that after blockland finished launching it wrote some sort of text file to the config directory as a message which the original file took as a cue to replace the shader files, then deleted that "message" file

^^^^^^^^
do this

Swat 3 · September 21, 2013, 08:18:06 PM

This is what they cut; The soft shadows.

That's what the first screenshots looked like, we just need shaders that mix onto each other and that would be what we really saw.

Just need a NASA super computer.

awesomebread · September 21, 2013, 08:32:09 PM

Wow! More shaders I can't use!

Plexious · September 21, 2013, 08:38:44 PM

Quote from: Swat 3 on September 21, 2013, 08:18:06 PM

Just need a NASA super computer.

Or just a graphics card that's come out in the last 3 years.

Blake1 · September 21, 2013, 08:51:28 PM

Quote from: Plexious on September 21, 2013, 08:38:44 PM

Or just a graphics card that's come out in the last 3 years.

I wonder if my GeForce GT 610 would work. It easily runs max shaders

Hotspot · September 21, 2013, 09:10:41 PM

Quote from: Swat 3 on September 21, 2013, 08:18:06 PM

This is what they cut; The soft shadows.

That's what the first screenshots looked like, we just need shaders that mix onto each other and that would be what we really saw.

Just need a NASA super computer.

NASA computers do calculations, and they have no v�deo card.

Swat 3 · September 21, 2013, 10:26:12 PM

Quote from: Hotspot on September 21, 2013, 09:10:41 PM

NASA computers do calculations, and they have no v�deo card.

:(

Marcem · September 21, 2013, 11:42:05 PM

The soft shadows are too soft, This is like everything is a mile away or it's a really diffused light source.

.::Taboo::. · September 21, 2013, 11:44:28 PM

Actual diffusion is not only a massive pain to make, it also would be pretty much reserved for people SLI'ing five GTX Titans at the scale Blockland would require. It's either sharp or soft all the way.

Sevara · September 21, 2013, 11:55:01 PM

Awesome job, Port. I'm guessing you used a Gaussian blur with a set pixel radius?

Port · September 21, 2013, 11:59:04 PM

Quote from: Marcem on September 21, 2013, 11:42:05 PM

The soft shadows are too soft, This is like everything is a mile away or it's a really diffused light source.

It's configurable.

Quote from: Sevara on September 21, 2013, 11:55:01 PM

Awesome job, Port. I'm guessing you used a Gaussian blur with a set pixel radius?

Simple averaging of shadow map tests within a configurable cubic XxYxZ region.

Port · September 22, 2013, 12:01:51 AM

Quote from: Blake1 on September 21, 2013, 08:51:28 PM

I wonder if my GeForce GT 610 would work. It easily runs max shaders

I use a AMD Radeon HD 7870 (GHz Edition) on Max shaders and depending on brick counts and soft shader settings it brings me down from 60-200 FPS to 15-50 FPS.

Incinerate · September 22, 2013, 01:31:56 AM

Quote from: Blake1 on September 21, 2013, 08:51:28 PM

I wonder if my GeForce GT 610 would work. It easily runs max shaders

What? I have the same graphics card and I can barely run shaders. Running low on Collab City gives me about 20 fps.

Edit: Well I can run max with no bricks easy, but with bricks the game is completely unplayable.