cujoe_da_man opened this issue on Jun 17, 2012 ยท 35 posts
bagginsbill posted Mon, 18 June 2012 at 10:36 PM
Even if you only wanted .2 inch resolution for shadows, to cover a 1000 foot square block you'd need 60000 pixels on a side of the map. That would be over 7.2 GB of RAM just for the shadow map.
And even then it would not be good enough if you also have a person in the foreground. A nose shadow would display jaggies.
The only way to get the proper 1/2 degree blur from sunlight over the entire scene is raytrace.
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