Why?

In this view, there is no need for BSP Blocks with static lights either,
since this is the same concept:
Create a static lighning, that is rendered once, and needs not
renderingtime ingame (it just needs to be displayed).

Not every game needs dynamic shadows. If the gamelight / dayligt does not change,
and the lights dont move, there is no need to make the lighning dynamic.
The only problem that will persits, is that the shadows of units and Models will
look different than the shadows by blocks...

I also can imagine that dynamic lights and shadows will be the future. Most shaders have only one purpose: creating dynamic lighting. This concept even uses normals, heights and specularity today. The gpu's do all that real-time.

Currently static light maps are a good way to create moody environments. If I would make a game now then I want to have static shadows as well. This ensures to run smoother today.

But the future will probably be real-time. It will even make much things easier: You don't need light map compilition. You can place a light in a real-time editor and you see results instantly.

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Why? In this view, there is no need for BSP Blocks with static lights either,

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Yes thats right.. such things should be removed from the engine.

If all shadowing it rendered on the fly, the engine
needs much higher machines, than without it.

This is a hobby/indy engine after all,
so games with it should keep to the more high-fps
techniques.

Matt is always several light years ahead of us .

While he's right that precalculated lighting will eventually disappear, at the moment - and also for the next couple of years - it will still be used by most major engines. Even Microsoft just began to implement precalculated lighting in DX9 and DX10.

I dont think i'm too futuristic here. Engines like Doom3 have had this for years. CryEngine 2, Unreal 3, etc will all use dynamic lighting and shadows.

Some precalculation can be useful for such things as Global illumination and so on, but for standard lighitng and shadows there's no substitute for dynamic methods.

Why not just add dynamic stuff and leave the static things as they are once they are finished?

Naw, he's not lightyears ahead of us, just sees in FPV(First Person View), also known as "first person shooter view". It's a syndrome full of effects, and other razzle dazzle.

Unfortuantly, it will be a while until all games can switch to a fully dynamic lighting system, mostly due to speed reasons. I'd be doing things a differently if speed was no issue. As well, creating art to properly work with dynamic lighting is alot of work, a fair amount more than art developed in mind for static lightmaps.

Actually, both take a lot of time if you want to get it done right. If only people who use the fill tool would try to spend more than just half an hour on one skin painting, just take the time needed to make a proper skin. You know, add lot's of (necessary) details, and would look for some general painting tutorials, etc. ...

It seems just a handful of people are prepared to spend some time learning this, but it could greatly improve the overall quality of the games shown here on the forums .. I'm not critisizing anyone here, I've experienced myself that learning to digitally paint costs a LOT of time. (Still not done learning.)

Some people seem to think that shaders make a model look good, but infact it's the textures for 90+ % that makes it look good. Shaders can only make it a bit better, or way way worse. (I definately agree that bump mapping or parallax mapping and perhaps even specular mapping improve a model a lot, Frank_g's textures are a good example, however even there you see that it's actually the artwork that's making it great).

Cheers