@Superku: cool! are they bone animated characters? I see no shadows, but they will cost probably significant performance. of course it is heavily scene size and complexity dependent, similarly to pathfinder performance. collisions in my system eat a lot of power currently, I also thought of another solution...

@Superku: Wow, Felix, it looks awesome.
And it runs so fast and smooth. Really impressive.

Are you going to make a Superku-RTS? With thousands of 'Superküen' (in german: 'mit riesigen Superku-Herden' )
'Command & Conquer Superku' or 'Superku Total War'?!

Lobt den nicht so sehr, der hebt ab ^^

hehe CowCraft

Thanks again!

Surprisingly this one is not going to be a Superku/ cow game but a somehow trashy battle for earth.
Yes, I'm using bone animations and because of your post, Sivan, I've implemented my own type of simple shadows today (no selfshadowing, 1024² shadow map resolution). With again 300 units the framerate goes down to about 135-145fps, close up/ in regular view distance it's around 200fps so still pretty good.


(btw. just noticed that the terrain and unit shadows don't match, will get fixed)

Superku@ mate this looks so awesome, I beg for a demo to play with

Greets

very nice!

(but it should be waay faster with instancing...)

That shadow-stuff sounds interesting, SuperKu.
Happy birthday 3run.

@Superku: agree, a simple shadowmapping is quite enough, if you limit camera angle and distance, low ambient and high diffuse result in the feeling of self shadows, pssm would become too slow with many entities. I've never had such a high fps even if I put only a terrain on screen... probably pro edition features gives a nice boost. what kind of pathfinding do you use, and what is the map size in character-size units?

+1

@Superku
Great video! It looks promising. I would love to know the secrets

I realized that I have to focus on a less artistic game. It is out of my bounds...