Source Shadows

Messing around in GMod with the Source Engine's new shadows

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• source
• engine
• shadow
• gmod

[thegamer1236]

lulz i haz made nub angry

[spar0mast]

you cant make a map in gmod...

[Berniebud]

@qiman2 Have you tried setting the shadow and shader settings to high?

[qiman2]

FUCK WHY DOESN'T IT WORK FOR ME?

[TheBlackBritt]

do you want to know why this may be the greatest engine ever created? it is extremely flexible, you can even run it without a card, yet you can get mindblowing graphics like in portal, ultra realistic physics, the best quality dynamics i've ever seen, and since it uses LUA, it's own recorder, and it's own SDK its REALLY easy to start making your own scripts, maps, and make movies at 60fps ithout the hassle of needing a $1000 dollar PC, why, i believe Valve is the programming god,

[glados360]

Is This Rly Garry Newman?

[TheMrpwnman]

source engine>cryengine2

[iBr0KeN]

@fireyblackdragon lol yah, but I think my Sapphire HD 5870 and Phenom II X4 Oc'd @ 3.8 Ghz will do just fine xD But the map would still be nice, though. Source is a pretty kickass engine. People were probably shitting themselves at the physics and graphics of Half-Life 2 when it came out like, 4 or something years ago. It's still satisfactory up to date. I mean, the games are so innovative and original, the graphics don't really matter. On top of that, they still look pretty nice.

[fireyblackdragon]

@iBr0KeN that is probably because you have a newer computer, the source engine was made to run on very weak hardware (my 10 year old PC can run l4d just fine on high) yet, these lights are pretty CPU intensive, if you want proof, i will make a map using only the lamps (toggleable) and it will show you how much it is actually hurting your speed, and that's on a small map, if i were to go through say 2fort or dust, and replaced all those lights, you would lag so hard...

[iBr0KeN]

@fireyblackdragon Thx! I got it lol. I didn't get much lag or fps drops using this so Valve should incorporate this effect with ALL shadows in the next Source update. That'd look so awesome xD