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Assist => News => Topic started by: ELiZ on Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 01:55:08 AM

Title: Player shadows has been disabled.
Post by: ELiZ on Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 01:55:08 AM

We have decided to turn off player shadows.
Reason for this is that they could be used to spot enemies though walls.

Title: Re: Player shadows has been disabled.
Post by: bollie on Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 01:56:07 AM

Bummer

Title: Re: Player shadows has been disabled.
Post by: 82nd_DXO_COL=Shad on Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 01:57:15 AM

Awesome.  Much needed as admins can't turn them off in 2.5

Title: Re: Player shadows has been disabled.
Post by: Ares on Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 02:03:36 AM

Good call.

Title: Re: Player shadows has been disabled.
Post by: ArmyAntiCheat on Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 04:21:01 AM

Hooah!:)

Title: Re: Player shadows has been disabled.
Post by: sNak on Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 04:50:35 AM

Nice job guys!

Title: Re: Player shadows has been disabled.
Post by: Goncalo on Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 08:20:36 AM

nice one, thanks

Title: Re: Player shadows has been disabled.
Post by: -{GcC}-Bockmist on Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 08:36:13 AM

Good decision, Thank you

Title: Re: Player shadows has been disabled.
Post by: ~=W!CK!D=~ on Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 08:52:01 AM

That sucks

Title: Re: Player shadows has been disabled.
Post by: guily6669 on Tuesday, February 04, 2014, 22:40:46 PM

And can't the shadows be fixed?

This is one of the things I never liked in AA is playing for years and years without the shadows (they were disabled on almost every servers).

It's even so stupid why AA devs for years haven't done anything about them, and just let everyone disable it instead :down:
Keep Cool

Title: Re: Player shadows has been disabled.
Post by: Spanky on Tuesday, February 04, 2014, 23:55:04 PM

It's an engine problem. Epic would have to update the engine,in which case we'd need the source to rebuild on the new engine.

It's just old is all. It happens on all dynamic lights (even on some static lights). Player shadows were a bit of a hack anyway as the game doesn't fully support dynamic shadows.

Title: Re: Player shadows has been disabled.
Post by: guily6669 on Wednesday, February 05, 2014, 00:00:45 AM

Damn it. But still, versions and versions of AA2 were made, each needed a new compiler... But that issue was never fixed by anyone (I call it stupidity).

ps: There are games made under the UE2 that came out with excellent shadows for back then...
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Title: Re: Player shadows has been disabled.
Post by: Kenga on Thursday, March 06, 2014, 12:40:33 PM

Quote from: W!ck!d on Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 08:52:01 AM

That sucks

yep