That fake shaow method by squashing meshes is extremely bad. Results are poor visually and are extremely slow.

We shouldnt have to be faking things like softshadows by now.

Its annoying to see that an unneeded upgrade to C lite is being activly worked on instead of a decent shadow system that is not 4 years behind the indie scene. This is not a not a knock on A6, but if anyone tells you otherwise, they are lying.

Softshadows should have been implemented 2 years ago at least.

agreed (except one year ago )

like i said before, i'm sure its just shaders. here's one technique from GameDev.net, which i'm sure could be done in 3dgamestudio with a shader, but i'm not in the know-how and i don't have a high enough edition so someone else will have to do it

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article2193.asp

this is for a fixed light source. i guess if you want half-life 2 style shadows (which are directional) you'd obviously have to tweak it a bit. ask someone in the shader forum if you are really interested. would be nice to have native support but it would probably just be a shader (i guess) built in that you can turn on/off.

Julz

Actually it's a pro feature only since you need a render target. Maybe they'll hardcode it in the engine but it shouldn't be that difficult.