The new engine demo on the beta page is pretty cool.
Some Questions :-

1). Is the soft shadow shader(on the soldiers) available in the A6 shader library ?

2).Is the level composed of blocks + models or just models alone ?

3).The lightbeam effect through the windows - is it shader based or a sprite/model ?

regards
zazang

Very interesting demo. I like the lighting alot. Well done!

Here is the direct link:
http://server.conitec.net/down/demo_lightshadows.zip

But besides that there are problems as well. If you switch to a resolution 1280x1024 then shadows do not work (they stand beside the persons) as you can see here:




And the moving of the camera with keys and mouse feels very jerky though I constantly had 75 FPS. Something is wrong with camera script. It is not fps independent or reacts with delays resulting in jerks.

Animations are weak but this is not an engine fault.

The level and lighting is impressive though. With some improvements it could be a good advertising for A7.

the zip file didn't work for me. how did you manage to extract it?

Looks and sounds like Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
Very cool.

I would like to see some internal "functions" instead of a wrs-file.

the zip cannot be opended by filzip and 7zip, nor windows zip. "unsupported compresion method".

I extracted it with Winrar.

I uploaded a copy as rar file at Dexsoft. This is just temporarily so better Conitec creates a new compatible archive file:
http://www.dexsoft-games.com/Frank/demo_lightshadows.rar

Have fun!

The demo doesn't work on my computer. Not with the beta archive, and not with franks archive either. I just get a window with a black background and 5 lines of dashes.

Pretty excited about this, though!

Did you grab some sounds from Return to Castle Wolfenstein? (id Software / Gray Matter Studios)

It sounds like.