So why are we using such low resolution shadows (besides the obvious performance issues)?
It may be because of track settings. Check out Croft, like I said.
Perhaps some tracks from ISI had lower shadow settings, especially older ones.
Why does the shadow blur option not affect them? Is this option not working in 880, or did it never work, or does it only not work with certain video cards?
See
this post to see what difference shadow blur actually makes. It will not make shadow pixels go away, it will only blur them.
I always use ISI Portugal and ISI cars for my comparisons so as not to introduce stray variables.
Good. I also like that track, but it's pretty old right now. May have lower shadow settings.
That's one of the issues with rF2 - engine depends on many settings in content, so as the content gets older, some features of engine (like shadows and reflections) grow old as well. This will remain an open issue for some time as I believe ISI simply does not have the manpower to keep updating the old content every time hey update something in the engine.
By the way, K Szczech, you already explained the other huge graphics issue a long time ago:
http://isiforums.net/f/showthread.php/7921-Flickering-and-aliasing-fresnel-reflections
We're still waiting for that to be resolved by something other than SGSS or SS that kills performance.
That is not easy to resolve - another subject that consumed some research in graphics world
One thing we need to keep in mind - these are not bugs or issues - it's just the way things work in relatime graphics. Of course game developers can spend time on overcoming these shortages and making exceptional game engine, but that takes incredible amount of time. This is why studios reselling their engines to hundreds of other companies can afford that, but independent game studios cannot.
And this is why I don't see such flaws as an issue - I simply accept them. I know how these things work and it doesn't bother me. But I do understand it bothers many other people. It's like I said - people get used to many things and start taking them for granted not being aware just how much effort has gone into achieving them. These things will be considered standard and demanded from everyone.
