Improved shadows support

(Jaquboss) #1

Plz. is there any possibility to do these things ( i hope that engine sources will be sometime released , so SD dont need to botherabout that )

  1. Fix cg_shadows 2 not drawing bug , you can try r_clear 1 with cg_shadows 2 and you will see a lot of purple place ( this was OK on RTCW )
  • If you want to see cg_shadows 2 in action just turn of hud (because head) , dont move . turn off coronas , dont check it near moving objects
  1. Allow MDM to cast shadows , I dunno how to do that , but it is almost as important as 1)
  2. this is easy point , to prevent shadows throught wall cheat just make trace for cecking visibility , this is easy for most modders ( playing with RF_NOSHADOW )
    I think it will be nice , also by doing 2) there will be support for cg_shadows 3 ( shadows planes , need small mod source modifications but they look good enought too)
(BondyBoy007) #2

looking at the post subject I thought for a moment that The Shadows re-union gig had a new support line-up announced :banana:

(Jaquboss) #3

seriosly , here are some screenshots …



(Chruker) #4

wow, I had no idea ET had that stuff in it. I was actually thinking of looking into adding those kind of shadows.

Anyway which settings are you using to get those shadow effects? Playing with those two cvars you mention I got a lot of HOM effect and purple screen, but I could see some traces of the rendered shadows.

(SCDS_reyalP) #5

cg_shadows 2 requires stencil buffer (r_stencilbits 8 or something like that). ISTR it also crashes in some situations, and is banned almost everywhere because of the mentioned wallhack effect. AFAIK, It is a leftover from some unfinished experiment.

I can’t imagine cosmetic stuff like this will ever be fixed in an official patch, but who knows :moo: The etpro team did manage to slip a couple of features into 2.60.

I very much doubt the et engine will be released at least until Q3 is, and that is officially delayed until after they stop selling commercial licenses for it.

(Chruker) #6

Tried changing the r_stencilbits to 8 but never got any luck with cg_shadows 2. However 4 made some shadows, but the shadows seems to appear on certain planes.

(Jaquboss) #7

It needs fixed Engine , this works really good in old Quake III , and it is cheat disabled but working and nice in Call of Duty…
You also may need to remove some no-shadows flags if you want for example shadows for map models , however it can look weird since map models are often used to be near light…
Point is that this stuff was broken and it was left , ( no shadows for MDM for example ) and it will look nice when it will be back ( if got will give )
However these shadows are sometime taken as cheat
third point in my first post explains it and I think that most problems can be solved that way…
But I cant do anything now , editing binary files without source is not my hobby…