{"id":2496,"date":"2012-05-06T17:06:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T07:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2012-05-16T12:58:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T02:58:11","slug":"unexpected-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2012\/05\/06\/unexpected-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MMORPG2ScreenSnapz004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2497\" title=\"MMORPG2ScreenSnapz004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MMORPG2ScreenSnapz004-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MMORPG2ScreenSnapz004-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MMORPG2ScreenSnapz004-1024x593.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MMORPG2ScreenSnapz004.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Ladies and gentlemen, cascading shadow maps are working.\u00a0 (High-resolution shadows up close, low-resolution in the distance.\u00a0 In this screenshot, all the visible shadows are low-resolution;\u00a0 the high-res ones are mostly only visible when you&#8217;re down near the ground)<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the best shot of the shadows;\u00a0 I&#8217;ll take another screenshot later tonight which will be a bit more dramatic.\u00a0 But I was sort of startled to see this a moment ago:\u00a0 AI developer cursors automatically casting shadows.\u00a0 I probably should disable that, since they&#8217;re not supposed to literally be present inside the game world.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s neat to see the shadows working.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s looking like I probably need a third shadow distance.\u00a0 The close one is really needed for when you&#8217;re actually standing on the ground.\u00a0 But for the shadows visible in the middle-distance here, they look a lot blockier than I&#8217;d really like.\u00a0 So there&#8217;s still a bit more work to be done.\u00a0 But overall, I&#8217;m pretty happy with where this is going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and gentlemen, cascading shadow maps are working.\u00a0 (High-resolution shadows up close, low-resolution in the distance.\u00a0 In this screenshot, all the visible shadows are low-resolution;\u00a0 the high-res ones are mostly only visible when you&#8217;re down near the ground) This isn&#8217;t the best shot of the shadows;\u00a0 I&#8217;ll take another screenshot later tonight which will be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-Eg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}