well, i got 180+ with all ents onscreen, 300+ without... also, off the current topic a bit, but i have no where else to post this, you used DDS textures for your terrain colormap, i cant edit dds, any freeware i can use? we dont all have photoshop, any ideas anyone?

for dds u can use gimp, but you need to get a plugin, you can find it easily with google.

ok question...

Can anyone give me an idea on what would cause this to happen ?


It only happens when the sun starts to move...When my scene first loads up it looks normal...then about 1-2 seconds into the scene this happens to all my leaves...

I am not using any shaders on the leaves...just plain tga images ?

Thanks for all the testing guys! Much appreciated Glad it works for almost all of you.

Strange thing though, that the shadowmapping is working fine on an old radeon 9800, but not on an X850 ati for teh_win ...

lostzac, so when the sun isn't moving, the shadow works fine? Strange...i'm quite sure i added support for a moving sun. Well, please wait for the next snapshot, this might be fixed then, as another shadowmapping algorythm will be used.

Yesterday i had an idea on how to render shadows for 3-4 lights at the speed of 1 fast light...so basically it wouldn't really matter if you have 4 lights casting shadows or only one, speed would be almost the same. If this works out, i might actually die of happiness, so let's hope for the best

WEEEEEEE!

IT WORKS!

3 LIGHTS AT THE SPEED OF ONE! (I get 512 fps, again)

<- my face

Test + FPS + feedback please

download: http://shadec.project-havoc.com/wip/fast_pointlights.rar

Also , please compare it to the 1 light demo, and see if fps is nearly the same:
http://shadec.project-havoc.com/wip/fast_pointlight.rar

It's still ugly as hell, but again: That's not the point here

Is it possible to use shade-c with the trial version ?!
When I try to include it I get this:
Error in shade-c\sc_core.h line 10: var undeclared identifier
If you know if it is possible or what I am doing wrong please tell me...
Thanks!

4 Lights: ~60 FPS
1 Light: 60-90 FPS on ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 and Windows XP

Highest possible FPS in window mode: ~322

Very cool! What's the trick behind that?

<- 512 in windowmode
<- constant 60 in Fullscreen.

AMD Athalon 64X2 6400+, XP-SP3, 9800GT

Single-Light = solid 512fps, couldnt get lower
Multi-Light = solid 512fps, couldnt get lower

currently running alot in the background, cpu intense aps

single light 500fps

Multiple lights 512 fps

getting better performance with multiple
trying to run it in fullscreen makes everything blink on and off like a disco ;p
Intel Q6600 @ stock 2.4 ghz, Windows 7 beta, Ati HD3870