Damn, found this so late... In the last days I am finding a lot of stuff very late :/ Strange.

Anyway, I don´t understand that softshadow thing too. It´s nice to have soft shadows, but I think they can only be used rarely because they won´t be very fast and need a good computer to run on.

And too bad I could only vote for one. Otherwise I would have voted for decals AND vertex weights. And I think many would have done that.
Because now it's not like, if all the people who wanted decals or vertex weights (for example clones of me ) would have voted for the one with higher votes. I mean if I have only one vote and I see that vertex weights is almost leading, and decals have no chance, then I would give my vote vertex weights instead of decals to make at least my other favourite leading.

I mean then wouldn´t it be 50 votes decals, and 50 votes vertex weights and 51 votes soft shadows. It would be 100 votes vertex weigths and 0 votes decals and 51 votes soft shadows. Ok, that´s the extremest possible case. And this example shows that this way of voting would make decals look unwanted, but that isn´t intended by the voters. THat´s why I like polls where I can vote for everything I like/dislike.

Last but not least a nice idea, to make a poll. I like it.