Would you sacrifice real dynamic shadows, for getting rain t : V

» Mon Sep 26, 2011 3:28 pm

Title says it all.

» Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:32 am

NO

It would be worse!

» Mon Sep 26, 2011 3:34 pm

What is this? Some kind of silly questions contest? Ok, I'll do the next one:

Would you sacrifice magic for melee combat?

» Mon Sep 26, 2011 10:28 am

Have real dynamic shadows and no rain going through roofs. :tongue:

» Sun Sep 25, 2011 11:51 pm

No , i wouldn't. I just think that realistic shadows are more important than realistic rain, they just appear more often. There are shadows anytime , but rain only sometimes.

» Mon Sep 26, 2011 3:20 pm

Certainly not!, the lack of shadows make the scape bland, and yes I would like rain to work properly, but not at the expense of shadows.

» Mon Sep 26, 2011 1:45 pm

I live in Oregon.

I need my rain to be perfect.

My vote is for rain.

» Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:18 am

Absolutely not. Couldn't care less about the rain.

» Mon Sep 26, 2011 2:49 am

As for the shadows, If they could be as oblivion, but still getting real rain, I myself would vote Yes.

» Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:40 am

As for the shadows, If they could be as oblivion, but still getting real rain, I myself would vote Yes.

Oblivion only has shadows for your character and NPCs, I believe the OP is talking about shadows from things like trees, rocks and buildings, non of which exist in Oblivion, someone attempted to create a mod but you needed a power house computer, even then the shadows were barely noticeable.

» Mon Sep 26, 2011 2:50 pm

What is this? Some kind of silly questions contest? Ok, I'll do the next one:

Would you sacrifice magic for melee combat?

Seconded. I don't see what it has to do one thing with another. They're two entirely different graphical features.

» Mon Sep 26, 2011 6:48 am

People still banging on about the rain....how fresh.

Shadows are far more effective. Besides alot of the buildings will probably be seperate cells.

Didn't stop people playing morrowind and oblivion.

» Mon Sep 26, 2011 2:04 am

I usually play without shadows (I think its a resource consuming feature that most of the time makes no difference if its on or off, but varies from game to game) so my opinion is a bit biased

» Mon Sep 26, 2011 7:10 am

Title says it all.

No lol, why would we want that? What has dynamic shadows even got to do with rain falling through objects? Seriously.

» Mon Sep 26, 2011 5:09 am

Why one or the other? Shouldn't we be getting both?

» Mon Sep 26, 2011 9:43 am

Seconded. I don't see what it has to do one thing with another. They're two entirely different graphical features.

And both features are computationally heavy, separate graphical features has nothing to do with it, how much cpu time is used by each does.

» Mon Sep 26, 2011 1:48 am

You don't need one to have the other... they're completely unrelated.

» Mon Sep 26, 2011 1:26 am

Shadows please. They are useful to some.

Allowing the sneaky to 'see' round corners.

» Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:42 am

There will always be shadows. There won't always be rain.

Therefore shadows > rain.

» Mon Sep 26, 2011 9:51 am

No lol, why would we want that? What has dynamic shadows even got to do with rain falling through objects? Seriously.

Because there is peopably not enough power on consoles, and low-mid computers to handle both at the same time, so therefore I ask wich one people want to have.

» Mon Sep 26, 2011 2:00 pm

Absolutely not. That's a very unbalanced trade-off.

» Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:23 am

You don't need one to have the other... they're completely unrelated.

:facepalm:
They are related by how much gpu/cpu time is allotted to them.

» Mon Sep 26, 2011 10:17 am

You don't need one to have the other... they're completely unrelated.

This has nothing to do with the thread.

Nobody is saying that you can only have one and not the other. OP is only saying which, of the two options, would you rather have. This question does not necessitate that the two features be mutually exclusive.

» Mon Sep 26, 2011 11:51 am

:facepalm:
They are related by how much gpu/cpu time is allotted to them.

I don't think a way to stop rain from falling through ceilings would be much GPU-intensive. And I've never heard of real rain collision simulation, but that'd be surely just crazy to compute.

As for dynamic shadows, they aren't as much uncommon as they were. Besides, there's always SSAO and ever better techniques to get a nice enough shadowing effect on objects.

» Mon Sep 26, 2011 7:07 am

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. :sadvaultboy: