We Need this. Dynamic Sky

[Torenico]

Seriusly, if this is true, who said bf2 engine sucks!, bf2 engine sucks you now. Er.

Okay, so i logged on Youtube after, a long time and i found this, video. I dunno, i cant believe my eyes, damn!, i mean. Jesus!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alH-6JoCzII

I Mean, seriusly? Dynamic Sky, Day n' Night? and with PERFECT Lightnings! no bugs visible, OMG!

Something tells me its not True, the shadows and stuff looks like if they were taken from Google Earth, who knows.

Maybe not usefull for All maps but, maybe for a battle that was fought for weeks or something, could add some realism. problem is, what do you with Night? Unless you find a way to turn Lights on as soon as is Night then i doubt it will work well in FH2, PR is other Thing, NV Goggles, there. But, worth a try in FH2!

Can we haz, plox?

[Alakazou]

Woah it will be a nice feature, but like you said, not for all map.

[Eat Uranium]

I saw this a couple of days ago, and my instant thought was to ask why there are no statics visible in the video.  This suggests to me that this would be incompatible with the lightmap of a map, and would only effect the dynamic shadows belonging to game play objects.

Still, even as it stands, its a pretty neat piece of codeing from the guy who will one day (hopefully) provide us with working PIAT sights.

[Wilhelm]

His coding work is truly amazing, but who knows if those kinds of features would work in an actual online game with other players.  Things like that could either cause crippling lag or just plain not work....among other things.

[Excavus]

This would not work. Period. Static shadows would not change with the sun, only dynamic shadows on players and vehicles. Also, I'm sure you can get a [R-DEV]Mosquill's help for working PIAT sights.

[Cory the Otter]

I would like this as well, but I have two concerns:

I'm afraid of massive shader bugs

The sun moving that quickly looks too unrealistic, I would suggest making it real time or closer to real-time, but that's just me

[Flyboy1942]

I think the only way a real time sun would work is during dusk/dawn operations. Otherwise theres no point really.

Too bad it seems like you cant do this with statics involved...

[Torenico]

We'll have to wait Lads.


Mosquill
4 Days Ago
@gnansink I have a few ideas how to make it work with lightmaps.


Ah, too bad he only said "lol" and, he should have written a nice description of what is that, Bugs, how does it works and what is PR

We have to wait. remember.

[Natty]

Only way to make it would be to have all the statics as bundledmeshes, which casts dynamic shadows.
Fun to code perhaps and to look at on youtube, but not for adding as feature to a BF2 mod.

[Raziel]

The sun moving that quickly looks too unrealistic, I would suggest making it real time or closer to real-time, but that's just me

Warrior I'm sure that the video is accelerated...watch the smoke coming out of the oil rig.

[Neighbor Kid]

this would be sick.

[Paavopesusieni]

That Mosquill guy seems to be really familiar with BF2 engine . Really nice but I don't think that it works with statics lightmaps.

Just make one awesome huge 8 km map that has only desert and mountains and lots of tanks. 1km view distance and time of day. No statics of course, maybe few tents at main. This all with time of day. Damn if I only had time for mapping.

[General_Henry]

That Mosquill guy seems to be really familiar with BF2 engine . Really nice but I don't think that it works with statics lightmaps.

Just make one awesome huge 8 km map that has only desert and mountains and lots of tanks. 1km view distance and time of day. No statics of course, maybe few tents at main. This all with time of day. Damn if I only had time for mapping.

A grand assault on Kidney Ridge!

[Excavus]

PR = Project Reality just so you guys know. He's a PR dev.

[Flyboy1942]

Oh I though he was someone from the Public Relations department... :/