Sounds like you're living the life man....

So...lets be frank...how quickly will I be able to mod this game into the Warriors? =D. I wanna bop my way through some turf.

Looking good.

Looking good, i like the water that you added in, looks cool.

*cough*shadows*cough*

visage - The only problem would be creating the player models :-) I'd love to find somebody who could make that many character models to make that work.

Laz - Lol...I did spend a little while tweaking the shadows, and this is as good as I can get 'em. I think it looks better than before (I tightend up the jittered sample points for the percentage closer flitering on the shadow maps), but still...most games that use shadow maps (Battlefield 2 really comes to mind), they all suffer from the same artifacts...BF2's shadow maps aren't even filtered (on my card at least, ATI X700) and look really bad up close, so overall I think mine aren't that bad.

I suppose one way of avoiding this would be to just not have shadows on objects X distance from the camera. I suppose it is a personal preference...I'd go for shadowing on all objects, and average quality shadows up close...verses high quality shadows up close...and no shadowing on objects a decent distance from the camera.

Plus the fact that I don't use per-object shadow maps it's difficult. Given the requirement that the time of day is 100% dynamic, and the camrea can pull out so high above at any time, having two large shadow maps over the entire scene is the only approach I could really take to make it work.

I'll try to post some better/higher-res pictures of the shadows later on.

- Dan

Shadows look awesome -- don't let Laz's innane ramblings get to you. [grin]

Freakin awsome man!

Great Work Indeed!