Character shadows in Unreal Tournament 2003/4

[Johnny Watson]

At the risk of sounding like a total newbie (which I suppose I am!) how does UT2k3/4 do those soft edged non-self-shadowing character shadows seen in these shots?

http://www.unrealtechnology.com/screens/Multiplayer.jpg
http://www.unrealtechnology.com/screens/pass6_800.jpg
http://www.unrealtechnology.com/screens/Shot00180a.jpg

Thanks.

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

I don't think those shots are UT2K3/4, they are UT2K4 running on Unreal Engine 3.

 

[Para]

Nope, UE2x. Sharp shadow maps are blurred a bit and that's it - as you can see, there isn't the area light effect at all (sharper shadows when the shadow is near the object it is being casted from).

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

I stand corrected - I checked again, and although one of those shots appears under the page for the UE3 engine, they all appear under the page for UE2.

 

[Johnny Watson]

This isn't UE3 or UE2x, this is plain old UE2. This is the type of shadowing UE2x uses: http://www.unrealtechnology.com/screens/Projected-Textures.jpg

Render-to-texture projected shadows. I was asking about the blobby character shadows in UE2.