I've tried again with PSSM shadows but it's impossible to get them working. The frame-rate is <10 FPS even testing on a high-end pc, and it doesn't give good results. Changing the theme of the level now would probably require to change lots of things.

About shorelines, they are dynamic together with sea.

I will put three different graphics quality options, and also a walktrough mode.

Don't worry about movement or animations, I think they are smooth and good-looking.

theme ? wouldnt it just be changing the level ambient, sunlight, skybox ? lol well no problem, just a suggestion to reduce your workload, current quality isnt bad

what i dont like though is that the HDR only seems obvious on the white sky background, would be cool to see it on some of the models i guess, but idk... may be pretty tricky to tweak

A scene with a bright sun like this does not make much sense without shadows. So if you cant get shadows working, then make it a gray overcast day. When the sun is covered by clouds then the complete sky casts scattered light and no real shadows appear, only some ambient occlusion. With such a weather you could get away without shadows. Everything else will look like a fake.

thats what i was suggesting ^^

ok, this is with an overcast-sunrise weather:

This really reminds me of first far cry you've done great work

ok we're definately heading somewhere now, lol this is now pretty damn good looking, play with the fog and i think we may have a close winner

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think the weapon is zoomed out a bit much tho

I like what i see here! Great work! Really reminds of the first Far Cry .

Hey Slin, where`s your criticism about the Sunset Down assets now?
Looks great, you`re really getting in the direction of Far Cry.

You really should ask Hummel for his "Wavefield" script. It would match more than perfectly to the setting. The water from wavefield is the best I`ve ever seen along with Crysis. And the lightrays (+shadows?) would match, too. Link: http://www.opserver.de/coni_users/web_users/pirvu/au/demo/zips/wavefield.zip

Wavefield doesn't work on my PC, I see just a black screen, but my graphics card supports PS 4.1.