WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

[Pericolos0]

i agree on the shadows, but i don't really know how to solve it, unreal3 doesn't render alpha shadows . I'm going to try and hide the shadow errors as much as possible .

I tried getting some more color in the composition, what do you guys think?

[JeanPaul]

Why does that support below the bridge look like its popping out? It looks like you added it in photoshop

[Buddy]

MORE EVIL!!!!!!!!1111!

[-HP-]

What support below the bridge?!

Anyways, so far so good dude, good work.

[Sentura]

color yes, those support things no.

[JeanPaul]

My perspective was off sorry, but I do agree, it needs more color.

Oh and what are these?

[dux]

the eagle heads are entities or whatever you want to call them in UnrelEd

[D3ads]

Unreal 3 doesn't render alpha shadows?!! Epic epically fails

[PogoP]

Wow dude that looks amazing. I love the subtle use of colour.

[aevirex]

Unreal 3 doesn't render alpha shadows?!! Epic epically fails

Only static shadows or masked textures. This is due to the deferred shading... almost no engine with deferred shading is able to do that (because it's a stupid and expensive hack to do so). No SSAA also.

[Buddy]

Unreal 3 doesn't render alpha shadows?!! Epic epically fails

Only static shadows or masked textures. This is due to the deferred shading... almost no engine with deferred shading is able to do that (because it's a stupid and expensive hack to do so). No SSAA also.

X-Ray is able to render them and is supporting deferred shading

[Skacky]

The blue things dux calls eagle heads are in fact Titan heads (a badass monster from the depths of Unreal 1 ).

These are entities, called Actors in Unreal Speak.

By the way your level is awesome mate, you got a great atmosphere with it. I agree with JeanPaul on the support though, it looks a bit out of place.

[Pericolos0]

Unreal 3 doesn't render alpha shadows?!! Epic epically fails

Only static shadows or masked textures. This is due to the deferred shading... almost no engine with deferred shading is able to do that (because it's a stupid and expensive hack to do so). No SSAA also.

I only have static shadows :s. The shadows work with realtime lighting though.

Also the engine we use at work renders alpha shadows realtime without much trouble, if you can have depth sorting with alpha, you can have shadows..

[arhurt]

I know that you have to set up compile commands in source to render alpha textures correctly if you want, I don't know how Unreal works but could there be something similar?

[aevirex]

Unreal 3 doesn't render alpha shadows?!! Epic epically fails

Only static shadows or masked textures. This is due to the deferred shading... almost no engine with deferred shading is able to do that (because it's a stupid and expensive hack to do so). No SSAA also.

I only have static shadows :s. The shadows work with realtime lighting though.

Also the engine we use at work renders alpha shadows realtime without much trouble, if you can have depth sorting with alpha, you can have shadows..

And depth sorting requires additional buffers and more passes, which is costy.

Also: sorry, I missread D3ads' comment. I thought he was referring to translucency. UE3 can do static soft shadows, hard stencil shadows and sampled (=soft) stencil shadows iirc.