I have a crappy intel dual core processor, 4gb of ram and a nvidia 9600GTX, the 490 was only in the caves and or if you didnt look at much of the models.

Runs very nicely now.
170 fps from far and about 80 when close to the house.

How is this going to perform when the amount of object is increased?
Like a small town or lots of trees?

499 in caves(is it even goes beyond that?) around 330 when everything is in sight(whole terrain) and around 250 when i center the house.

Hello,

Nice, yet have I a minimum of 160 FPS. Good work.

bye
White_Wolf

damn, i get this:
Error E1512 Empty prototype called in set_shadow_options

and than the scene is shown without any shadows

edit: ok, i, too updated to the latest directX and now it works and the errors are gone!

and it looks really cool!

interesting!

great work.

- between 420 and 499 in lowest screen resolution (windowed mode)
- between 200 and 250 in highest screen resolution (windowed mode)
- always 59 FPS in full screen mode

GF 9800 GTX

I saw some gaps between some objects and shadow map.

Did you ever test with lots of foliage like a small forest? Does it work similar?

I have something like this in mind:
http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/16853
(they use some split shadow mapping for large outdoors)

with a 7600GS
50 - 80 fps

It runs incredible fast compared to the previous version! If I hit the 1 key to use a lower resolution, I get nearly 40fps on my laptop. Amazing.

Remarks:
- I see no DOF?
- everything looks too crisp to me. Is it somehow possible to run a blurring filter over it like we are used to blur stencil shadows?
- Does it work with particles, too - are they casting shadows, too?

to activate dof, you need to activate panel and navigation thing.

uncomment the line Render_navi(); from script and turn dof on.

(it works with aa if this helps with crisp)