Lower minimum requirements

[Vakachehk]

Well comparing PS to a comercial game like WoW, WoW has better graphics than PS but lower Minimum requirments. So it must be possible to lower them some how.

[Akkaido Kivikar]

WoW is commercial, their profits depend on as many people being able to play as possible.

Also, now that PlaneShift has CS1.9, I've noticed the graphics are getting close to photo-realistic in some ways.... which WoW is obviously nowhere near.

[RlyDontKnow]

even though it might not be obvious on first sight, PS is able to look a *lot* better than WoW for example engine wise - that's why the minimum requirements are relatively high.
it might not look perfect right now, but art is highly incomplete as well and at some points you can already see how well PS can look(e.g. check out the dwarfen plate mail armor on highest details)

[Sarras Volcae]

wow's graphics are much better than ps's. you all have terrible eyesight 

[kaerli2]

The problem with PS is that the CS shader system is brain-damaged and unable to perform proper fallback handling (TO FIXED FUNCTION GRAPHICS, NOT to software implementation) on a fixed function card (if such is added, there should be a switch to force the game to fallback to fixed function mode in order to work around shader braindamage).

[jorrit]

The problem with PS is that the CS shader system is brain-damaged and unable to perform proper fallback handling (TO FIXED FUNCTION GRAPHICS, NOT to software implementation) on a fixed function card (if such is added, there should be a switch to force the game to fallback to fixed function mode in order to work around shader braindamage).

The CS shader system is very good with fallback handling. The only issue is that someone has to make the fallbacks. But the shader system supports it well.

Greetings,

[Akkaido Kivikar]

Yeah, any of the downfalls of PS graphicwise are be blamed on PS devs not implementing features from CS fully, rather than on CS not having features.

[weltall]

most of our shaders come directly from cs so someone has to write them and put them in cs repository