already thought of implementing a Light pre-pass renderer?

I looked into it a bit, I don't know yet what kind of system I'm going to implement, so it might be deferred rendering, light pre-pass rendering, inferred rendering, etc. Have to do more research when the time comes.

the probably fastest lighting system is what the Crytek people call 'deferred lighting'.
In fact this uses the basic idea of the light pre-pass but does not relinquish on the advantages of MRTs.
I uploaded an test project with 700 light sources some time ago in the projects forum

Maybe something you'd like to check, could be replicated with OpenCL perhaps? If you ofc decide to take a GPGPU route.

http://www.geeks3d.com/20090827/deferred-shading-with-compute-shaders-in-frostbite-2-engine/

The slide from page 19 and onwards is about the pros and cons and other info.

Interesting stuff. I'll have to think about those. Atm a variation of deferred shading seems to be the easiest and acceptably fast way.

looks so grat,good luck.
clean and easy code-great shaders-physics are good"good choice using BULLET",(even if i prefer AGEIA ;)).
but what about soft shadows for entities?

Hi and sorry for the late reply. Yeah I have been thinking about soft shadows, they are on the TODO but I haven't made up my mind about how high in the priority list they are at the moment.

if you put 3dgs shadows in account,you should absolutely give soft shadows high
priority!.

Looking good,cant wait to see the final release....

Posted some shots of EditorELF progress at the forums: http://forum.blendelf.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=99