Yea, realtime shadows thanks to Evolved, he made a sick Deferred Rendering system for DBP that actually works not only really well (once you get it setup
) but pretty fast too. I'm still trying to figure out why the gun is dropping it from 200 odd frames to about 60, but my hope is that it won't decrease below that much further.
I've actually thought about porting it into FPSC but I don't think it'd work out too well - it wasn't too hard for me because my engine centralizes most of the object creation/loading, and you have to add each object to the Deferred Rendering system or it will screw up the others. I made a simple system to exclude objects altogether and not have any of the strange problems you normally would but it still isn't automatic. I think it might be too slow for FPSC as well, but we'll see how it does performance wise after the migration and then maybe I'll take a shot at it.
And ya, I love the lighting in games like FEAR (and it improved a ton in FEAR 2). That's why I took the time to add it to my engine, even though I ended up having to modify some shaders to get it to work with the level object (turned out to be pretty easy once I figured out what was going on in the shader, that was the hard part). I was thinking that the dynamic shadows would probably be the only shader effect in my game, but I was surprised to find that Evolved setup compatible shaders for normal mapping, relief mapping and more. Most of them seem to require either PS/VS 1.0 or 2.0 too, so I don't think I'll have to worry too much about compatibility.
