Dynamic shadows

[MirceaKitsune]

Has anyone thought of adding realtime shadows to minetest, following the position of the sun / moon and torches? C++ and Irrlicht should easily support such a thing, and it would look prettier than the current lightning technique. That of course, if calculating shadows for millions of blocks does not kill the framerate :P What do you think?

[amkdude]

i think that would be awesome :cool:

[No-Half-Measures]

Gratz on a Old Thread Bump ¬.¬ *Sarcastic*

Dynamic Lighting would Kill Frame Rate Drasticly, Not to mention Older Systems that can run minetest currently probably wont be able to.

[indriApollo]

I'm the necromancer and this is 2015. Hasn't 3 years of technological progress brought us to the point where someone could implement this ?

[MirceaKitsune]

I'm the necromancer and this is 2015. Hasn't 3 years of technological progress brought us to the point where someone could implement this ?

Some mods dislike necroposting, but I think you did well since this is a feature worthy to keep discussing. Thankfully, RealBadAngel has dynamic lighting on his TODO list, which will allow realtime shadows as well.

[Kenney]

Great to hear, shadows like those add so, so much visual quality to the table. It's something that can make the game stand out.

[indriApollo]

This is what we had back in my minecraft days (was my personal server btw)

[jp]

IIRC, RealBadAngel (our audiovisual magician) is planning to add the Irrlicht real lighting (and therefore the dynamic shadows) in the near future.

[Calinou]

Freeminer apparently features dynamic (stencil) shadows for entities and players.

[ExeterDad]

I have to say... the above screenie is amazing. Hope we can see it appear in Minetest soon.