High Definition Dynamic Shadows..

[Apache Thunder]

Those are just the commands for the raytracer stuff that makes objectlightmaps.

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raytracer.shadowsNearCamera
raytracer.light.selfshadowing 1

[Senshi]

ObjectTemplate.minNrToTakeControl

Is code that makes it necessary for multiple players to be in flag radius to actually cap the flag. (e.g. if set to 5, 5 players must be in flag range to cap it).

[fo0k]

I gathered that but not seen this in action before.. is it used?

[Apache Thunder]

According to the command database, this is not used in the vanilla files. It would add a extra gameplay element. Like make main bases cappable only when 4 or more players are near it for example.

[Senshi]

Yeah, but mostly it's pretty useless in gameplay means as its effect heavily depends on the number of people playing. If you have 32on32, a minimum of 4 might be acceptable, if you fight 4on4, it would suck a bit...

[fo0k]

true.. though it's interesting for the interstate mod.. because the racing aspect of the its not traditional conquest play it could allow for more cooperative play when passing the checkpoints/flags etc

the interstate modders mind.. this site has members to cover all weird and wonderful modding angles

[Apache Thunder]

While working on conveting BFHeroes to BF1942, I experimented with making a projectile using a treeMesh. I didn't turn off DynamicShadows for it since I didn't expect it to work on treeMeshes anyway (since treeMeshes don't have a shadow mesh for obvious reasons), But to my surprise it had a shadow. But that wasn't the real surprise!

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I made some objects on my simulator map use a treeMesh and turned on dynamic shadows. That was the result. Notice that it's a bit buggy when there is a lot of them on the map. It causes a CTD in fullscreen mode and bad flickering of all treeMeshes on the map. But this did not occur with the sticky TNT that I originally made a treeMesh out of. So I suspect it will be more stable if the map isn't littered with treeMeshes with shadows on.

One idea I got out of this was to use this to make terrain "decals". Like helipads and stuff.

[fo0k]

W T F!?

whoa.. thats some weird shit man.. reflections..?

ive seen water reflections before in bf1942 when using the gta mod dll files but not like this.. thats very cool... and worthy of investigation!

[Apache Thunder]

Water reflections with gta dll files? Please explain this further.

[fo0k]

I'll dig them out.