Hi!
I read that very often, so I wanted to ask if this is possible with A6-Com and if somebody has tried it? In the new Shadertutorial of JCL, it says that such a shader can be made very easily, but I didn't understood how. I know that stencil shadows aren't fast, but if they are only used rarely (for example only for playerentities) it would give the little extra to our games...

Dark_Samurai

The "simple" way to blur them is to render them into a seperate texture blur that and combine it with the screencontent without shadows.
This is easy with A7.07 because there is already a texture containing the shadows only.
In A6 can get something like that as well through rendering everything just white through a simple effect. But you will need render to texture.

But ou should also know, that blurring them like that causes an halo effect around models which gets more visible if the blur is stronger.

A7 Com. i don't think A6 supports the access to the stencil buffer.

julz

EDIT: beaten to it.

btw...you can get a render to texture plugin in the user contributions forum. i dont have the link on hand but it shouldnt be to hard to find...its called render to texture dll for all a6 edtions.

I tried that dll but it didn't worked for me. I had the same problem with the black screen which is already mentioned...

Dark_Samurai