Wow, that takes me back! Your post opened up a small floodgate of happy memories about my early days in modern gaming, or at least the period of time that I consider modern PC gaming to have started.
Thanks!
Definitive list of every game with stencil shadows
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Only characters produce shadows the player has no shadow
Notice the shadow on his face
Kingpin Life of crime
Has no stencil shadow option just shadows on/off
Chaser may have them shadow option are none/blob/projected
How about UberSoldier ?
How about Enclave from the same devs that did Riddick ?
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Blazkowicz
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I can't see a thing (keeping polite) in your Kingpin shot ; here is an example
(I wonder if they cheap out if enemies/people are more than two or are far away)
It never occurred to me that in games like this the main character (yourself) ought to have his own shadow
Ranks very high on things you can get away with.
The map itself does have awesome shadowing (in quake 1/2/3 based games), fixed and pre-renderred when "compiling" the map. So if a desk is part of the map it possibly has "shadows". (painted on the floor, so if you were to slide a crate in, it would cover the shadow)
So.. good thing there's almost nothing except the map and the NPCs.
(I wonder if they cheap out if enemies/people are more than two or are far away)
It never occurred to me that in games like this the main character (yourself) ought to have his own shadow
Ranks very high on things you can get away with.
The map itself does have awesome shadowing (in quake 1/2/3 based games), fixed and pre-renderred when "compiling" the map. So if a desk is part of the map it possibly has "shadows". (painted on the floor, so if you were to slide a crate in, it would cover the shadow)
So.. good thing there's almost nothing except the map and the NPCs.
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I dont know how to tell if a shadow is a stencil shadow. I'm just going by if it looks like elite force 2 it could be
Elite force 1 doesnt have stencil shadows
Soldier of Fortune also by raven software doesnt have a stencil shadow option just
off/blob/projected
but despite having projected selected I couldnt see any character shadows
edit: they do have shadows its just many levels are at night or poorly lit
shadows are dynamic as well
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I don't thing this will necessarily work unless your force MSAA in the driver right?
I've got some Balls 2:
Trials 2 Second Edition:
Both games used similar uniform lighting model. Every object casts and receives shadows from every light source. Unlike Doom 3, my tech used a fully GPU-based stencil volume extrusion. In Trials 2 SE there's usually around 30 light sources in the screen at once (each casting shadow from every object). I used various tricks to reduce the stencil fillrate cost. Lighting shader was executed only for the pixels that received light from that light source. Trials 2 SE is using deferred rendering. IGSB 2 is using forward rendering. Lighting shaders in IGSB 2 were written in DXASM. SM 2.0 had 64 instruction limit... IGSB 2 main lighting shader is 63 instructions. At that time I had a Radeon 9700 Pro (ATIs first DX9 GPU). Trials 2 SE shaders are a bit simpler because of deferred rendering. Don't remember instruction counts, etc.
Trials 2 Second Edition:
Both games used similar uniform lighting model. Every object casts and receives shadows from every light source. Unlike Doom 3, my tech used a fully GPU-based stencil volume extrusion. In Trials 2 SE there's usually around 30 light sources in the screen at once (each casting shadow from every object). I used various tricks to reduce the stencil fillrate cost. Lighting shader was executed only for the pixels that received light from that light source. Trials 2 SE is using deferred rendering. IGSB 2 is using forward rendering. Lighting shaders in IGSB 2 were written in DXASM. SM 2.0 had 64 instruction limit... IGSB 2 main lighting shader is 63 instructions. At that time I had a Radeon 9700 Pro (ATIs first DX9 GPU). Trials 2 SE shaders are a bit simpler because of deferred rendering. Don't remember instruction counts, etc.
I only gave IGSB 2 it to beta testers. It was never publicly released. I joined RedLynx and sold all my tech to Frozenbyte (they were making http://www.shadowgroundsgame.com/new/).
I'm sure it needs more beta testing
I'd be curious if there are any other PS2 titles that attempt to do something like unified lighting besides Stolen. I know the Stolen devs were putting together this FPS prototype before they were shuttered, and it's pretty impressive
makes me wonder what the PS2 ports of Splinter Cell could've been were they not quick and dirty jobs
makes me wonder what the PS2 ports of Splinter Cell could've been were they not quick and dirty jobs
Didn't know of either. Great discovery.
