well, not so sure that the video will be done, but i've tried out shadows and i've got em to work, they look good when casting on the model, some of them do, but i might just have to disable it because on some models it looks a little odd, it'll probably be an option in the game to put on shadows which i'll put as an option between low, mid and high:

low: only mechs have shadows
medium: mechs and weapons have shadows
high: everything has shadows

the thing is when all the buildings and everything has shadows on, the framerate goes to about 15 from 42 perhaps i will try cast. so far it's looking pretty good though, it may definately be an option