Graphics - Light & Shadow

[Stuart Walpole]

• Simplify lighting for performance in the fixed function case (we really only have one light)

• <strike>Proper shadow maps with self-shadowing</strike>

• Improved lighting (dynamic environment, vertex shader)

• "Calefaction seemed to think we'd need to pretty much rewrite it?"
• "i think it's because we are doing it in CPU, and he wanted that to be done on GPU"
• "I don't know why; it might be nice to do calculations on the GPU where possible, but the current system seems good enough for the basic non-hardware version"
• "If the vertex shader (GPU) version can be a direct port of the current system, then it should be fine; though I suppose that might not be feasible, in which case it'd need to be rejigged a bit." (But there's only a few dozen lines of code that do the lighting, as far as I'm aware)"

• Forum thread: http://www.wildfiregames.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=9114

[Nicolai Hähnle]

This seems to be imported straight from the old task list in the Wiki. I believe those things are all implemented now.

If you feel that they aren't, please clarify and assign to me.

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Milestone Environment Demo deleted