SimonM7 - The other mod's bitch
SimonM7
Since 7599 Days
Is this a hardware based limitation of the 360? It's consistent throughout every game I own that the shadows look really rubbish around the edges, and it's especially noticable on closeups, for instance in Gears when you see Marcus face up close and the edges on the shadows are all jittery.

Kameo and GRAW2 are two more games that spring to mind that have the same "issue". It's like the one thing that keeps a lot of these games from looking "perfect", so I'm wondering if it's something that can be ironed out.
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Acert93 - Mr. Bad Cop
Acert93
Since 7547 Days
Stencil Shadows give the hard, clean edges while Shadow Maps can sometimes give the aliased edges if not a high enough resolutions. To compound the issue games are using different shadow techiques for different parts of the game. e.g. Precomputed static shadows for the world geometry, another technique for silouette shadows, and yet another for self shadows.

Another issue is the lack of a basic filter for shadows. That said there are many techniques to clean up shadows and a lot of games use them and will be. Especially as quality soft shadowing becomes the norm. I agree that shadows are important to games, the entire lighitng and shadowing model and balance can make a HUGE graphical impact, more so even than texture work.

On Gears, it kind of went unnoticed in the press that the technology in Gears was downsized from the initial demos to launch. It cut back a number of features (performance?) and is actually quite similar to HL2 in regards to how they go about things. Hopefully GOW2 makes some big steps in this area... as well as Mass Effect. ME has some of the worse self shadowing artifacting I have seen. HORRIBLE.
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Sgt1576
Sgt1576
Since 7351 Days
I have seen it in a few PS3 games too :ie Motorstorm demo.
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Jollipop
Jollipop
Since 7459 Days
Hmm yes Blue Dragon's Shadowing isn't half as good as i had hoped for.

I guess we can't have it all :( (maybe next gen ey ?)
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Optimusv2
Optimusv2
Since 7468 Days
Yea I notice a lot of imperfections, but as long as it they nail the general vision of what they are going for I wont be disappointed.

Carmack said before had they not demanded this hi def thing he could've done mindblowing things with shadows.
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