Awesome, this program will be a huge hit, can't wait and thanks for showing new features ass you add them makes me want it even more lol.

Working on the Shadowmap algorithmn:



of course you can directly edit (not atm - i admit ^^), delete and see the created entity (not atm) or material skin.



The shadowmap is saved properly (of course as long as you want the shadowmap to be stored in a mtl skin or in a file).

Worked a little bit more on the shadow algorithmn.



tomorrow I'll work on the gras system (or better said will think about a good solution)

Is this light coming from a point light or is this directional light? The shadows of the barrels at the bottom of the screen seem to be longer than the ones from the farer away ones...

I'm tracing directly from the sun towards the pixel (therefore the sun as a sort of "point" light. But your're right.. hmm.. i'll have a look at this "bug".

Thanks for the hint.

you could define a sun angle and look from each vertex of the model where the trace (direction is the angle) it hits the ground or trace from each pixel with the angle so just like this

yeah, thats the way i'm searching for shadow pixels (actually i use sun_pos.x instead of calculating the position for myself). The engine places the Vector sun_pos 1 million (!!!) quants outside of the point of origin (compared to 10.000 quants in your code example).

Actually I'm a bit irritated, because a terrain is about 100-500 quants big, therefore these quants should really be not important compared to the 1 million quants distance to the terrain (at least from the mathematical point of view..)

Addionally the shadow has the same length for all models, no matter where they are on the terrain. Only self shadowing makes a "shorter" shadow.
Sadly i have no idea why.. :X

Wow this looks like a realy cool tool!!!

I hope that you can finish it and it won't fail like GameEdit....
Please don't add too much features in the first release, because then the risc is lower that you won't finish this realy needed Tool! ^^

Thanks for your greate work and time you put into this!

PS: It would be interesting how much you finished of the editor (in percent)?

Dark_Samurai

This will become a vital part of gamemaking in 3DGS

remove baked/precalculated shadows and add SSAO you ll get the basic version of crytek sandbox2 for acknex (i know sandox has tons of other tools but you know similiar concept with this one)