duum III and how to enable Soft Shadows?

[FatCat]

I know you guys are tired of reading Doom III in the subject so I miss spelled it, :p anyways I was wondering how I could enable sof shadows because the shadows cast from lamps for example are solid black blocking out everything which is kinda silly.

[mauseum]

Take a look in the doomconfig.cfg ? If that doesnt yeild and answer perhaps d3 isnt soft shadow supported.

[ForeverUnknown]

i didnt see anything in the config. just one that turns shadows on and off. doesnt mean its' not there though

[FatCat]

I find it hard to beleive that doom doesn't support soft shadows. (N)

[Rob2687]

Im not seeing this blocking..what settings / graphics card?

[ForeverUnknown]

here's the entire cvar list http://www.evem.org.au/evem/archives/xtro/files/cvarlist.txt

see if there's anything

[JamesNQ]

I don't get this blocking either.

[PR.]

I think what he means is the edges of the shadows are very sharp, when in the real world shadows blur around the edges.

I upgraded to the 6800GT and my shadows are still sharp. It would look a lot better with soft shadows :)

[Rob2687]

shadows look fine over here on my 5600xt

[Shadrack]

Shadows should be blured around the edges, and in most cases shouldn't be completly black but should blend with the texture it is laying on. i have a feeling enabling such a feature would cause the fps to suffer even more for most rigs. But it still would have been nice to have it as an option. I mean, part of what make computer games so cool is that developers can make the graphics in the game expandable for when newer hardware comes out.

[Menge]

hrmm soft shadows is a very intensive effect. i dont think you'd like the amount of live lamps casting shadows to cast soft shadows. it'd be a pain to play :p

(could be, visually, very interesting, though....)

[FatCat]

that sucks , when I played far cry soft shadows were very well implemented on the object like barrels , you could see the textures underneath the shadows. It's a shame that doom III's advanced graphics engine doesn't support soft shadows.

[threetonesun]

that sucks , when I played far cry soft shadows were very well implemented on the object like barrels , you could see the textures underneath the shadows. It's a shame that doom III's advanced graphics engine doesn't support soft shadows.

Some of the hallways in Farcry with the lights swinging behind vents were great for that effect.

[Furrybeagle]

Am I missing something? Didint Splinter Cell implement this over two years ago on the XBox? They were dynamic shadows. You could have more than one light. THey would intersect and looked rather realistic. And they were "soft" to a certain degree. There was also no "blacking out," since you could easily see the texture below.

I think I am missing something here.

[FatCat]

if anyones shadows don't look like this please post a screenshot as well as some info , graphics card etc.