so why are you using 3dgs?

I don't use it for my own projects

Good advertisement when reading this from a mod. ^^

leaving the offtopic topic:
I'm just playing with setting tree model leaf normals runtime to be brighter only towards Sun:
before:

after:

Mh, the second picture looks a bit "flat" :|

yes, it's not perfect at all (yet), I mean perfect normals are not perfect, so some randomization is needed... and playing with tree models is also necessary as I want lower the poly count.

I love second picture! <3

Just managed to implement objectbased clippingplanes for my portal, so nothing goes behind it.

Why not bringing some 10 years technology also.
Your sprite shadow is good and fast, but for more little scenes,
or non open world won't it be better this one ?

Working with view-space material maps. Also known as matcap-shading (greetings @ParadoxStudio), but I guess Pixologix will sue me if I call them so to advertise my game instead of processing the per-vertex normal for the cylinder hull (like ParadoxStudio), I calculate a per-pixel normal, knowing that the hull is cylindrical. That way, I get a per-pixel view-space normal, which I can use to fetch the view-space material map. It works nice! And is fast!



The caps are btw. quads:



I evaluate the per-pixel object space-position and clip the pixel, if it is outside the uniform circle. This technique guarantees me a perfect rendered circular cap + it reduces the amount of polygons by the half + a static amount of +4 polygons.

[EDIT] Plus, I store the diffuse in RGB channel, the specular & glow part in A, so that I can modulate with that grey material arbitrary colors!: