with grass

this looks fantastic.

Is there a way you can make it so that any grass sprite thats inside a shadow be alot darker than the ones in the light? This would look amazing and add alot of depth to the space, especially for an RTS from a top down view.

Yes I will do that next,
it easy to do: just read out the shadowtexture and adapt the grassmodels
brightness.

Thats a very nice test scenes.... better then anything "serious" Ive started thats for sure. Glad to see the floating tower isnt floating anymore or maybe it is but I just cant see it from this view

I cant wait to see what you come up with once your finished. This is really excellent work here. Maybe once your finished with your editor conitec will by it from you so the rest of us can create nice shadows on our terrains as well.

I know you said it works with models as well... Did you mean that models will cast shadows on the terrain or that you can use a mdl terrain instead of an hmp? Or will both work?

Very cool! Off course you know it already, but on the second screenshot, the sand texture is kinda not so good looking. That's the only critic I could think off, it's looking really good, the grass added really adds to the atmosphere!

Cheers

Who cares about the stupid sand? The shadows look SWEET!!!!

Here I adapt the brightness of the grassmodels according to
the terrainshadow:





Next I need to make a better Grass placer function (more concentrated grass fields),
and replace the test textures and models with some nicer onces.

Looks damn good, indeed. Now what about a shadow-mapper for models?

Yea, thats the wasteland



Using a skycube:




Models can be scanned by the shadowbaker too,
but it afects only the terrain! not the modeltexture.
There are other ways to bake a shadow onto the model itself.

Would be cool, if anyone knows how to
create and save a bitmap in 3SDG.

Probably with a plugin.

Such that i can save the top texture of the terrain, and then add it
in MED.
Currently I have it store in a textfile, and it needs to be painted
onto the terrain in the beginning of the game.

BTW, I use the default Multitexturing Terrain Shader from the templates.
It works good, and fast enough.