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New dev blog: Beauty hides in the shadows

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Efraya
V0LTA
New Eden Alliance 99013733
#21 - 2011-11-01 16:36:04 UTC
Any word on why the sun is so impossibly bright?

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Nonnori Ikkala
Love for You
#22 - 2011-11-01 16:42:25 UTC
Love the technical details. But, being generous, I understood about 60% of that. Anybody care to explain (or link to) how axis aligned bounding boxes, light source’s viewpoints, and shadow receivers all tie together?

Also: pretty.
Cunane Jeran
#23 - 2011-11-01 16:48:19 UTC
Can't complain about the game becoming more pretty like.
TheLostPenguin
Surreal Departure
#24 - 2011-11-01 16:51:17 UTC
Personally I rarely have the view zoomed in anywhere near close enough to see shadows more than "dat side of ship is darker than other" but nice that it'll look better when I DO zoom in closer. Probaly quite a few people will think "meh so what?" about this but it's all the 'little' details like this that come together to make any game look more awesome and shiny overall, great that you can squeeze out improvements like this for (hopefully actual) little increase in loadSmile
Shanlara
Weatherlight Industry
#25 - 2011-11-01 16:56:44 UTC
Properly won't get an answar, but is there any updates on the new Nebulae's you showcased at last fan fest ? and which have been show casing in you latest "trailers", it's a part i'm really exited to have as our current Nebulae's looks pretty much... well they look like ****, sorry :P

Hopefully we can get a answar if this will be part of winter exspansion or if the ETA is still Soon tm.
Svennig
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#26 - 2011-11-01 16:57:13 UTC
Awesome work.
Midnight Hope
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#27 - 2011-11-01 17:04:53 UTC
I maybe a party poopper, but to be honest, the existing shadows are good enough. I fail to see what a huge improvement this change makes.

If you want to improve how the game looks update some more ships like you did with the scorpion.
Apollo Gabriel
Kill'em all. Let Bob sort'em out.
Ushra'Khan
#28 - 2011-11-01 17:14:36 UTC
Looks great, can we get lasers to miss now?

Imagine Donkey Kong where every barrel looked like it hit you.
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Perkone
Caldari State
#29 - 2011-11-01 17:17:32 UTC
Midnight Hope wrote:
I maybe a party poopper, but to be honest, the existing shadows are good enough. I fail to see what a huge improvement this change makes.

If you want to improve how the game looks update some more ships like you did with the scorpion.



I hope you brought a plastic baggy for that poop.


My props off to the dev for making this improvement. It's a rare thing to see any kind of visual improvement in a game without a noticeable increase of system resources, and you pulled it off splendidly.
Leovarian Lavitz
Ninjuggernauts
Fly Fearless
#30 - 2011-11-01 17:25:36 UTC
Shanlara wrote:
Properly won't get an answar, but is there any updates on the new Nebulae's you showcased at last fan fest ? and which have been show casing in you latest "trailers", it's a part i'm really exited to have as our current Nebulae's looks pretty much... well they look like ****, sorry :P

Hopefully we can get a answar if this will be part of winter exspansion or if the ETA is still Soon tm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8kBAWayqELU <- Video dev blog about it
Callic Veratar
#31 - 2011-11-01 17:26:08 UTC
Efraya wrote:
Any word on why the sun is so impossibly bright?


Look into the sun and ask that again.
Tiger's Spirit
Templars of the Shadows
#32 - 2011-11-01 17:27:37 UTC
The most important feature in EVE.
Oh wait 99% of players disable shadows in their client because just slowing their VGA speed ...
Maybe this is the useless CQ part 2.
Callic Veratar
#33 - 2011-11-01 17:37:16 UTC
Tiger's Spirit wrote:
The most important feature in EVE.
Oh wait 99% of players disable shadows in their client because just slowing their VGA speed ...
Maybe this is the useless CQ part 2.


If your computer is so bad you need to disable the shadows due to rendering speed, it might be time to shell out $15 to upgrade.
GokuZWar
Free People of Earth
#34 - 2011-11-01 17:37:45 UTC
yay more prettiness that i can't see because my GPU sux. I haven't had high level shadows on for a while so I won't miss this either...how bout some game improvements vs pretty stuff? Pretty is nice, but honestly, if you got a good game it doesn't matter what it looks like. Look at half the iPhone apps out there. They look like garbage but people still play them...

Fix broke stuff before you go make new stuff that'll break please....
Ancy Denaries
Frontier Venture
#35 - 2011-11-01 17:42:44 UTC
GokuZWar wrote:
yay more prettiness that i can't see because my GPU sux. I haven't had high level shadows on for a while so I won't miss this either...how bout some game improvements vs pretty stuff? Pretty is nice, but honestly, if you got a good game it doesn't matter what it looks like. Look at half the iPhone apps out there. They look like garbage but people still play them...

Fix broke stuff before you go make new stuff that'll break please....

Yes, because we clearly want the graphic artists working on game code, amirite?

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Petrus Blackshell
Rifterlings
#36 - 2011-11-01 17:50:50 UTC
Looking good, but I'd like to see an image of a frigate or other ship casting a shadow on a gate, so I know whether I'll want to re-enable shadows.

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Razin
The Scope
#37 - 2011-11-01 17:52:02 UTC
Definitely looking forward to better shadows. And at no cost to GPU load! Excellent!
Alaskan Hunter
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#38 - 2011-11-01 17:57:56 UTC
Awesome, especially if it is true about minimal impact on performance. It's not often I take the time to look at shadows but nice all the same. I would be lying if I said I never look at the ships closely. Does this mean that ship textures are possibly getting upgraded soon as well. I hope so:)

Thanks CCP
Harold Tuphlos
The Dark Space Initiative
Scary Wormhole People
#39 - 2011-11-01 17:58:41 UTC
Petrus Blackshell wrote:
Looking good, but I'd like to see an image of a frigate or other ship casting a shadow on a gate, so I know whether I'll want to re-enable shadows.


Jack bubu wrote:
Jim Luc wrote:
Sounds great, but the most important improvement for shadows wasn't even mentioned:

Shadows on Large Objects like Stations, Asteroids, Gates, etc. Does this mean we get rid of the ugly dark blocks? Someone please tell me if this doesn't fix that, this is something that's being worked on and why you can't fix it???

Checked it on sisi and those blocks are gone
http://s7.directupload.net/images/111101/w6xwzvss.jpg

On the right side you can see the shadow of my muninn on the gate.
Jim Luc
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#40 - 2011-11-01 17:58:57 UTC
Petrus Blackshell wrote:
Looking good, but I'd like to see an image of a frigate or other ship casting a shadow on a gate, so I know whether I'll want to re-enable shadows.


Jack bubu posted a pic on page 1:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=290818#post290818

http://s7.directupload.net/images/111101/w6xwzvss.jpg