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If you're going to include sikkmod you might as well add Treb's soft shadow mapping, way better than the hacky sikkmod soft shadows
They also give me higher perf over shadow volumes.

Very cool!
The map reminds me a bit of the first world of MDK.
http://youtu.be/VUvvSRG5rAA?t=1m

I also noticed some flickering/disappearing shadows at the cantina windows on Mars city and some other places. (GF GTX660, driver 320.49) Did you change the texture filtering on those pics? That doesn't look right even for something that low res, could be block compression? Iirc MH swapped the norma...

http://i.minus.com/iWwp3hyUEHYyL.jpg
Yep...

As for image quality, perhaps this trick would help a little?
http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/ ... exture.htm

Works like a charm
I did notice the player head is not part of the shadow with g_showplayershadow 1, but the teeth(?) are.
I'll post a screenshot if you cannot reproduce it.

Don't have an issue with the cartoony suggestive theming, but that just looks so much better aesthetically, imho.

Erh, I'd just post "continue like you're doing" all the time

Yeah! Awesome stuff! I've been wanting this for a while :D You based the code of some other engine (DP/Tesseract)? It looks really nice. I also like the alpha tested shadows. I'm sure Id would have had those everywhere they could had they had the opportunity. The reason self shadowing is disabled on...

Don't have Q2 handy, but is it possible to do dithering for multitexture blending? That would be really cool.

edit: just to be clear, I meant mixing color of lighting and level textures "as if" in 24 bit and turning it to 8 bit dither. Not bilinear filtering with dither.

Yeah, I'm not suggesting you go fully procedural or anything. Just throwing it out here, there's some simple yet clever ideas inside. If one or two are applicable that might be a win.

Maybe you'll like this. David Rosen talks about procedural animation. Kind of amazing how much movement he gets out of only a couple of keyframes.
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020583/An ... e-Approach

Erh... not to start an argument, but XP is 12 years old. That's like 2 centuries in computerizelated time. If they shouldn't drop it now, then when?

Impressive, the linework in the texture works really nicely together with the sobel (?) filter. Cell shading looks good also. It really brings out the anime aspect. Could be the future look for OA?

No normalmapping/lightstyles. What I'm having in mind at the moment is something like Lunarans's latest floater http://www.lunaran.com/images/maps/large/lun3dm5_9.jpg ...so that level of complexity but with a NPR texture style leaning more towards illustration/graphics design. Actually I just rememb...