scenery shadow bake

[hyrons]

Would it be possible for shadows to be set for a time specified by the user then runs a shadow map build based on that to bake shadows on to ground texture, so we can have all the terrain, vegetation and building shadows on but with no CPU/gpu performance drop?

if flights are less that a couple of hours who going to notice a shadow move??

[WarpD]

The short answer is no. The textures are generic and based on landclass so they would be reused across the globe. Baking shadows onto the texture would end up with the exact same shadow all over the locations where that texture is repeated.

The really long answer is... if the textures were unique, you would be waiting days, perhaps even longer, for your system to load the entire world and "bake" shadows.

[hyrons]

I was thinking that you would pre-select a given area for baking, an also this would be predominantly for photo scenery users.

[WarpD]

Photoscenery already has shadows... just all wrong ones. Adding yet more shadows to it won't improve things.