Feature #8370

Shadow in smoke/particle effects

Added by Raidar 8 months ago. Updated about 1 month ago.

Status:Assigned Start:2010-01-21
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Description

It would be great if shadow would effect the particle effects, as an additional option, too, like in Armed Assault.

It looks strange if the particle effects in shady places are as bright as in full light. In Armed Assault, fire effects are effected by these shadows too, which it looks weird.

smoke.jpg (72.5 KB) Raidar, Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:00:54 +0000

smoke1.jpg (88.3 KB) Raidar, Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:00:54 +0000

smoke_shadow.jpg (122.3 KB) Raidar, Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:32:17 +0000

smoke_light.jpg (89.3 KB) Raidar, Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:32:17 +0000

fire_smoke.jpg (27.2 KB) Raidar, Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:32:17 +0000

armedassaultsmoke.jpg (278.6 KB) Raidar, Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:32:17 +0000

armedtankdust.jpg (149.9 KB) Raidar, Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:32:17 +0000

History

Updated by kju 8 months ago

  • Status changed from New to Assigned

I don't really understand the screenshot..

Updated by 76 8 months ago

The Armed Assault screen shot is shadows being cast on smoke (the particle effect).

Basically particle effects such as smoke ingame should represent the real-life effect of light reflecting off gazillions of particles that is smoke, weather that's direct light or indirect/filtered light (shadows), both picture illustrate this well.

Updated by Vic 8 months ago

I'm pretty sure I've seen this in ArmA2 as well, at least using very high shadows. Will check again.

Updated by Raidar 8 months ago

@ 76 Well why don't make all the physical "things" based on the actual understanding of how everything works, simulate every atom.

No shadows at particle effects, i checked too.
Smoke.jpg - is probably an ACE1 screen. Shadow in the smoke, which is clearing after the tank explosion. The smoke effect is ACE, but the shadow rendering is vanilla.
smoke1.jpg is the shadow of the trees and the bush, on the smoke of a smoke grenade.

Seems like the smoke shadow was renderd just the same as every other shadow. As i know the smoke particles are just textures aligned facing at the player. So basically, maybe, if i'm not completely wrong, it would be relatively easy to enable shadow on these textures (or how ever it works). Sometimes it looked a little strange in Armed Assault, when the shadow was coming at it from a steep angle, but mostely it delivers a nice volumetric feeling. It just makes the smoke more connected to the environement. Now particle effcts glow a little in the shadow.
I just tried out what happens at night, if you light smoke with a searchlight. The night solution would be a great thing too. Just every particle which is more in dark then in light, switches to night brightness. Allso works with muzzle flashes, fire etc.

Don't missunderstand me plz, i love the game ;)
Some screens added

Updated by Raidar 8 months ago

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