but if examined carefully shadows are added and can be unnatural

Depends on the game type, a rts and people will never stare and try to see if shadows looks natural or not specially during full action.

And decals from Skyrim looks good and it's AAA game.


A game never be perfect, just look at this Skyrim screenshot, if you look at the ground, you'll see it's just a texture , not natural at all :

I'm not a graphics expert, this column is simply nice. I hope, beside quality, you can achieve a good performance too.

@ratchet: yes, game making requires a lot of fake solutions, and I absolutely agree, in some cases nobody will take care of some lower quality graphics. but optimization requires to discover a lot of possible solutions.

As long as the antialiasing I used in the screenshot is disabled, performance is pretty good.

@Kartoffel: Why is the pillar so dark and the base so bright? This looks a little off. I like the look of the base plate very much, though.

That's because the sun was almost directly above the column and the ambient brightness is a bit low.

Here's a screenshot with a different light angle:

Character with armor...This mesh has a strength morph added to it to deform the body to make him look like a warrior, which can also be reversed to make him look weaker, as well aging morphs. Still working on deforming the armor to match as their is some clipping but other then that.

a group pathfinder demo will be in the editor, lod models have lod highlighting textures.
in case of free/extra edition feature set it looks like this:
when using decal shadows for environment, and stencil shadows for units:

and if using a static lightmap with unit stencil shadows:

Successfully converted GWEN to lite-c

Uuuuhh, NICE! Is the image fetched from a BMAP? Looks great!

What is GWEN?