Comments on: No Shadows For You!

By: Gardemo Neeriken

Gardemo Neeriken — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:46:31 +0000

In reply to wotaskd. With ivy bridge on top? :)

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:18:30 +0000

In reply to Luke.

Then we’d just be complaining a bout the great big blurry shadows.

(re: my post above) Tuning is one thing, but I sense a hint in the background that resolution is also going to be a memory issue, and this is one area where resolution is, for now, dispensable. It just impacts those of us making video in X-Plane — unless you see lots of aircraft shadow from the cockpit.

By: wotaskd

wotaskd — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 03:44:49 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik. An i7 maybe would :)

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 03:42:07 +0000

In reply to simon. Dunno how much faster Kepler will be, except that you can definitely be CPU bound on a modern system - I see that on my i5/580 sometimes, and in that case, Kepler won't be any help.

By: simon

simon — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 03:26:22 +0000

Hey Ben, I just did an alert on the new Nvidia Kepler GPU coming out soon and specs. Can you let us know if it might boost performance considerably? It looks twice the speed/fps performance of my 560. Plus would teaming it with a PCIe 3.0 compatible Mobo make things even snazzier? Finally, Chip keeps bugging me ‘why doesn’t the new card have 3, 4 or 5 gigs of memory?’! I’m guessing as it can pass on more info quicker, it doesn’t need the memory?

Loving the new RC3.

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 01:08:22 +0000

Mmm, yes this made me think perhaps the shadows could be blurred a bit more to prevent the sawtooth. Nasty flickering from helicopter blades is also a little bit epileptic. There are so many *large scale world* games that seem to get the shadows just right, and it saddens me that x-plane hasn’t yet. Good to here there is more room to tune 😉

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:33:20 +0000

In reply to Steve. Yeah there is still room to tune...

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:50:12 +0000

Finally we can fully model Peter Pan. 🙂

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:42:12 +0000

Given the attention to shadows brings up a thought, Ben: will the 3D shadows on aircraft ever get higher resolution than they have now? There’s still a nasty sawtooth on ’em when you get close or the angle on the aircraft “stretches” the edge of the shadow.