Okay I decided to upload the current version as meantioned in the thread in Showcase 1.
If you have any questions please ask, but I can´t promise, that I can help you.

Read the ReadMe.txt and have a look on how I integrated the shadows. I would love to see someone going on with them and using them in a project. Why not post some screenshots here on how they are looking in your level

You can download the files here:
http://files.filefront.com/VSMSun+Project+V1/;9447947;/fileinfo.html

Have fun!
Nils Daumann


Edit: I forgot to mention that you need at least A7.07 Comm to use them.

Well done! It's really cool to see more and more advanced effects being realized in 3dgs. Great job, and thanks for sharing.

Wow, thanks for contribution it. It is very good and looks professional.

wow, i was watching your project for a while, and i like it, it's a shame i have a6

Is A7.07 already downloadable?
I can't find it..

EDIT: Found the beta ^^

thank you very much for your efforts and for sharing!

nice work! however i still have problems like artefacts on both the models and the terrain. there is almost no viewing angle where it looks okay at some angles it looks very bad.

have a look at the screenshots, maybe they help to eliminate the problem. gfx card is a geforce 7600 GS.

http://www.ackbytes.com/upload/shot_0.jpg
http://www.ackbytes.com/upload/shot_2.jpg

ulf's screenshots show quite exactly what I've got.

It is a pity, considering your effort!
A pioneer's work can't always be a success!

Thanks for your comments.
You are free to improve the shadows use a bias for the depthcomparison and choose a higher depthmap depth (instead of 16bit floatingpoint per channel 32 bit fp per channel, 12222 -> 14444) It looks much better than but needs a strong hardware... (the higher shadowmap resolution and pixeldepth caused the first demos to have such really hard displayingproblems on "older" hardware)

what exactly is the rendering process, and would it be possible to port to A6