so, now that WorldOfWarcraft has reached its Open Beta Phase I guess a lot of people are playing it by now.
I was looking a bit more at the graphical aspect of the game and especially the lighting and shadows.
to me it looks like as if they still dont use a light source and therefore also no shading. is this true?
are the shadows on the terrain really calculated shadows or is it just a texture trick?
They are using pre calculated lighting. and the dynamic shadowing you are seeing is probably stencil buffer stuff. Note: I have not played the game yet so I can only go by screenshots. But I would assume they are just using lightmaps for lighting with some dynamic lighting but no realtime lighting.
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