after correcting my stupidity, and lowering cluster size thus enshorting unit path searches, lightly blurred stencil shadows work fast enough for low poly units and buildings, and looks fine together with static lightmap of static objects. it seems to be a good alternative of pssm shadows for slower pcs.

nice to see the progress, sivan

Talking about performance I really reccomend you to work on the script / unit-management!
610 functions running at the same time are clearly too much.
So before adjusting the balance between graphics and performance to get as much fps as possible you should optimize your code.
That would result in better performance without worse quality

thanks, of course, it is also under development, I'm just cutting up my spaghetti, and making it much more modular, then I'll be able to decrease loop quantity as it was recommended by others too. only group and map updates are optimized.
I simply had no enough time for it because of my job, and had only time to play with some graphics performance optimization solutions (few-minute-long modifications and tests).
moreover, I also have to redesign my entity and database structure to be more flexible, which is still in brainstorming phase. the current system is a bit rigid and okay only for a simple RTS battle game, not for an age of empires 2 like RTS.

@RealSpawn :
i like a lot your simple and ready to use Template, ideal for quick level test, or to begin some FPS base game before improving it !

@Sivan:
I would want to say : go for C++.
Just Call 3DGS renderer and level loader !
An better why not C++ plugin : Call to Direct X hardware animation handling as you don't have the pro version.

And yes animated sprite for soldiers indeed on far distances !
It's only some quad , incredibly less CPU or GPU than a real animated mesh (even if low poly).

@Realspawn
So my basic shooter template is not good enough for you i see

I don't use templates, i just seen Realspawn talking about a simple complete working one very basic, so i'm interested.
Where is yours ?

it was a joke of mine.

http://www.rp-interactive.nl/ws/wshops.html
Hostet on realspawns server
have fun

Edit: Its not really a template, its more a how to get startet for fps and some basic stuff.

Working on cathode ray tube (CRT) shaders. For that "AAA?"-"How about no?"-feeling. On your oldschool TV.

@ratchet i am tweaking the last few things. it will be soon
online as it holds all the basics with simple code to use and study.

@rayp
I got the joke but you know me, i always want a few extra's to make it more appealing so i made some crater sprites and some simple explosions. Put my own cool picture in it have ammo number and health pickup and real bullets
working elevator and gates so all to create a very simple shooter and learn from it

Changing material settings and coding some ambient and athmospherical switches to increase the athmosphere of a level.

But now I'm too close to see if I'm making progress or not. I'm grateful for any feedback and suggestions!
Keep in mind that I'm interested in suggestions for all kind of settings, not only for a forest at night!

Top: Before
Bottom: After.



I guess it might be too dark already. Augh.

EDIT: Second shot:



I'm also having some slight trouble with draw_obj, but the bigger problem is using PP-effects on a camera-view when camera.bg is set to a transparent value - it goes insane there. Has anyone encountered that problem before?