Hey,
i'm currently working on my own stencil shadows and i noticed that they are much faster then the a6/a7 stencil shadows. I think i will release it as a free plugin, but at the moment this is just for study.
The shadows still produce artefacts with some models which works with the a6 shadows. (There are also some models which works better with my shadows then with the a6 shadows) I hope i can solve this.
Some screenshots:
fasterStencil:



A6 stencil shadows:




At the moment i'm using z-pass stencil shadows, z-fail stencil shadows are also working though they are a bit slower.

Screenshots taken on:
Pentium D820 2*2.8 GHz
1gb ram
Geforce 6600GT

the pig's butt always seems to be blocky.

- can we switch on/off self shadowing?
- looking at the skull, i assume your stencil method works with open meshes as well as with cloesd ones?
- 18 fps is still much too little for the skull, but a giant improvement over 3 (600%!)

it's good to have you in the community great work, i hope you'll be able to fix the remaining issues.

That is because he have slow pc.
Great job man!

Unless you've changed the light source position in between, the fasterStencil's second screenshot definitely has wrong angles on the shadows... regardless, it could (still, whether you fix this or not) be useful if it's indeed a lot faster.

@broozar: thx for the kind words. Well sometimes it works, sometimes not. Its not that easy to explain, it doesn't only depends if a mesh is open.
@PHeMoX: Yes, the sun is moving.

thx@all.

great, man, as i see, shadows is a great trouble in GameStudio... so we are waiting for your shadows

a lot of the artifacts can probably be reduced if you can deflate the shadow-volume slightly.

i hope you know what i mean. don't know if you can do it (i've never dealt with stencil shadows), or if it's clear enough from my beautiful artwork there.

good on you, though. they're looking pretty cool.

one question though: don't gs's stencil shadows default to z-fail?

julz

Great job Chris. Now the question is: why are the in-built stencil shadow much slower then yours?

Yeah, I'd wonder the same, as it seems to be almost equally as accurate?



I see, then small changes make sense of course.

It's great. Very good work. The shopping caddy and the projector are my models