Spring RTS Engine

GeForce 8800GTS
I'm constantly switching between metal view, height view and LoS view. Do shadows display in thoose views? I have it turned off but shadows would be pretty useful in determining heights of airplanes and projectiles. Do projectiles have shadows?

Anyway. When I buy a new computer I will get a 3D screen so that I don't have to use the height view and so that I can determine the height of projectiles and airplanes without changing the camera angle.

AMD M880G, Shadows off

Unless it's on Seth's Ravine, which makes the map that much cooler.. I can stand the lag since it's only 2v2 there.

9600 GSO... shadows work fine, but why would i want to play without LOS... why would any of you want that...

edit: well its obvious why people would want shadows. i prefer LOS mode. i would run shadows if i could have both.

Depends on the game how important LOS is. I just toggle it for moments quickly.
Though I dont think Beherith made the thread for LOS vs shadows, what was the idea? Dynamic sun thing?

I play with lowest settings I can. Graphics never mattered to me in any game, I play games for the gameplay. If I wanted to see something pretty I'd just take a long look out the window.

jazcash : a legendary combination of headless spring and guesswork

Jaz, whats you GPU btw?

Knorke: No, that wasnt it's original intention, it had a more general sense. But the findings of so many people opting for los instead of shadows is intriguing.

Opting for shadows instead of los is more intriguing :D

No need for los when you've been playing without it for so long.

u ppl want to tell me someone play in 'L' mode ?

also, no.

Beherith wrote:Jaz, whats you GPU btw?

Radeon "4800 Series" - 1GB: Powering a 1920*1200 resolution.

Wombat wrote:u ppl want to tell me someone play in 'L' mode ?

also, no.

Was there a widget to get the 'L'-mode to display grey fog of war instead?

Also, was there a thread for discussing GPU:s for spring? Didn't find it directly...

Spring's lack of a proper LOS-View is one of its biggest flaws for me. Considering that this is an RTS engine its nothing less than a showstopper.

Only reason I use fog of war mode is to make bright maps darker.

/shadows 1 (shadow map size 2048pix) , GTX260
/water 2

jamerlan wrote:geforce 560ti 1gb + i7 2600k + 8 gb ram

I have these exact specs too.

very_bad_soldier wrote:Spring's lack of a proper LOS-View is one of its biggest flaws for me. Considering that this is an RTS engine its nothing less than a showstopper.

+1. Shadows when speccing, fog of war when playing. I find it intriguing that people play without.

GTX 460
Spec:Engine Shadows
Playing: LOS and Shadows (blob shadow widget is not bad)

The 4 year old craptop I play on has an Nvidia Quadro NVS 135M, which is basically a GeForce 8400M GS.

I technically have (low detail) shadows enabled, but like many other people I never see them because los view. I only see shadows when I spec.

very_bad_soldier wrote:Spring's lack of a proper LOS-View is one of its biggest flaws for me. Considering that this is an RTS engine its nothing less than a showstopper.

What is a proper LOS-view? I don't want simple round circles. I want to know what I can see, this includes ALos. To me the system could be improved if the visualisation update speed was as fast as the underlying system.