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edit: i was late, again.

if i change the map the shadows are not correct. How can i change the map correct or is it not possible?

Der_Kekser: I didn't think of adding support for level change. I'll have a look at it

While doing a simple projection shader example for an user i had an idea about a 6x faster way to render cubemaps for pointlights (or any other shader that could use them, realtime reflection for example). Tried it out today and guess what? IT WORKS! YAY!

I made a small testscene with one light casting shadows. At the moment it has no effect on framerate ( I get 512 fps, which is the highest i can get). So ... yeah ...lighting fast shadows

They are very ugly at the moment though, as there is absolutely no filtering activated and no diffuse lighting.
But i want you guys to test it, before i go on with it. Maybe it's not working for most of you guys (which i don't think, this uses very simple shadercode and only standardt texture formats)...but please test it so i can be sure it's working for most of you . This should run on a GeForceFX/Radeon9xxx

When testing, please write down the average fps you get and post it here. Also please post your highest fps possible in A7 (windowed, not fullscreen!) and also let me know what gfx-card you are using, so we can get some results for performance comparison

Downloadlink:
http://shadec.project-havoc.com/wip/fast_pointlight.rar

Screenshot how it should look: (yes, ugly shadows, but that's not the point here. I wanna know if the method for rendering the cubemap works for you guys )

what is this?
*run to download*

370-400 FPS on Radeon 9600 on Windows XP
270-300 FPS on Geforce 8600M GT on Windows 7

very good

Average 250 FPS on 512mb Geforce 9300M GS (notebook) with Windows XP.
Since my computer is a dual boot:
same specs with vista: = 230 FPS

I get this when I try to run from SED:
Error in 'MAIN' line 141: 'LF_activate' undeclared identifier

I ran it from the uncompressed RAR as well as after copying it into my 3DGS folder, version 7.77.

Can you tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks,
Marcus

220-230 FPS on nvidia gtx 260 and Windows Vista | processor clocked down to 800 MHz(Phenom II X4 945)
around 500 FPS(493-exactly 500) on nvidia gtx 260 and Windows Vista | processor standart Frq. 3000 MHz

So these are really fast shadows

Very nice!

~500 fps without any objects in the view
~400 fps with everything in the view

Win Vista
AMD Athlon 64 / 2,2 Ghz
nvidia 8600 gts
1534 MB Ram