Blob shadows - Xerios

Seeing that shadows can become a real pain in RTS games, especially when the game always has more then hundred units, low-end PC users end up disabling them.

Unfortunately having a game without shadows is a pretty bad thing, not only you get confused with height, making you wonder if a unit is floating or if it’s actually on the ground but it also looks ugly as hell.

Solution? Implement blob shadows!

They aren’t as detailed as normal shadows, but they are good enough and much faster !

Does this solve the ugliness? See it for yourself !

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