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FSX Shadows on all objects
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That's one of the best features of P3D.
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Can't say for steam edition but I doubt it's any better than FSX box edition. Fly P3D one time and you'll be hooked.
Hi Misho:
IIUC, aircraft and 3D scenery objects can both be utilized as SimObjects as they have the same basic internal MDL structures, so in theory either type could utilize "volumetric" shadowing if properly made as 'manifold' objects.
Aircraft, however, reportedly have the additional option of having a "shadow mask" applied.
I would infer that there is a way to do the same with any 3D scenery object via a shadow mask as well, and perhaps even with acceptable performance on 'modern' FS computers with powerful CPUs / GPUs in DX-9 mode, although the Windows DirectX-9 result of rendering such shadowing is reportedly of much lower resolution than in DX-10.
Some pertinent links:
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/self-shadowing-on-fsx-aircraft-the-secret-is-revealed.2942/
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/object-self-shadowing.6904/
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sebby1234/2007/10/08/fsx-dx10-self-shadowing-vcs/
https://stevesfsxanalysis.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/new-fsx-setting-forcevcshadowmap/
...and:
https://www.google.com/#q=FSX+MDL+self-shadowing
https://www.google.com/#q=FSX+SimObject+self-shadowing
Hope this helps !
GaryGB
IIUC, aircraft and 3D scenery objects can both be utilized as SimObjects as they have the same basic internal MDL structures, so in theory either type could utilize "volumetric" shadowing if properly made as 'manifold' objects.
Aircraft, however, reportedly have the additional option of having a "shadow mask" applied.
I would infer that there is a way to do the same with any 3D scenery object via a shadow mask as well, and perhaps even with acceptable performance on 'modern' FS computers with powerful CPUs / GPUs in DX-9 mode, although the Windows DirectX-9 result of rendering such shadowing is reportedly of much lower resolution than in DX-10.
Some pertinent links:
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/self-shadowing-on-fsx-aircraft-the-secret-is-revealed.2942/
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/object-self-shadowing.6904/
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sebby1234/2007/10/08/fsx-dx10-self-shadowing-vcs/
https://stevesfsxanalysis.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/new-fsx-setting-forcevcshadowmap/
...and:
https://www.google.com/#q=FSX+MDL+self-shadowing
https://www.google.com/#q=FSX+SimObject+self-shadowing
Hope this helps !
GaryGB
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I'm not a commercial developer but building only for FSX may limit sales. A large portion of FSX users have moved to P3D. With the P3D SDK you can generate both FSX and P3D native models. I'm currently building an aircraft for FSX but only using FSX to test, everything is compiled through P3D.