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The wall / window piece is now complete:

I have no idea how the treads could ever work, so I am content to describe it as SORCERY!

I was thinking how far into industrial era the consumerism starts to drive some big numbers of major group society. Mass-producing of cheap things from celluloid (combs, kitchen utensils, etc.) making modern marketing and advertisement spread around streets and people's minds. Child labor and 12-hour shifts, seven days a week is one thing about factories dominating the world, but putting more modern image of a human in basically dark age grounded society needs some serious rethinking of the whole world set. And for now, a tank. With no context.

@Dragofer Only 1 thing I can think of is copy the page source of your profile page and profile page /photo/, paste it in textfiles and share it with @Springheel so he, or some other admin/developer can take a look at it and see if there is something missing/wrong in the code. I use firefox and my page source for ... /photo/ is 1574 lines long when I View Page Source.

Very professional peter_spy nice job.

It's dead, Jim.

Stencil shadows is the original shadowing method used in the engine. Shadow maps were implemented by TDM team quite recently. Both types have their advantages and disadvantages.

Yup, the main idea is to create a standalone set, not to complement the current model base. Of course mappers can always scale down the textures and lower the fidelity of the materials, but that's completely up to them. But the lighting is indeed quite sterile, it's what I use to test a default material behavior. This would probably be something closer to actual WIP environment:

I have come to dislike the film for 3 main reasons. 1. It craps all over the established Star Wars universe. 2. It ignores or dismisses major plot points established in The Force Awakens. 3. The film constantly builds up to moments that have no payoff or meaning. 1. It craps all over the established Star Wars universe. If you're going to create a movie in an established universe, you should be obligated to follow the established rules of that universe. a) This movie changes what the Force is and how it works. Leia's "superman" flight was patently ridiculous. We've never seen the force used that way before. We've never seen the Force used to create illusions before (illusions that can actually be physically touched, additionally). And somehow, the Force has become something that anyone can use with no training at all. Remember how much Luke--who was strong in the force--had to train with Yoda before he could lift a single rock? Even after months of training, he still couldn't lift his X-wing. Rey, who has two lessons with Luke, is able to lift twenty massive boulders and hold them all in the air at the same time. A little kid, with zero training, is able to use the force to grab a broom?? Even Anakin, supposedly the most powerful Jedi ever, never did anything like that as a kid. b ) The movie completely destroys the character of Luke Skywalker. Luke, who risks his life because he sees a spark of goodness inside his father (the most evil man in the galaxy), is going to murder his nephew in his sleep because he feels some darkness in him?? Give me a break. c) The "Lightspeed as a weapon" moment was cool, sure, but it kind of raises the question of why that has never been done before? Why bother getting the plans for the death-star? Just hyperspace a ship with a volunteer through it. It changes the way the universe works (and from a story point of view, if they could do that, why not do it with one of the earlier ships that just got blown up anyway? Lightspeed your medical frigate and the chase is over). d) The movie destroys the concept of heroism, good guys and bad guys, arguably the main themes of the Star Wars universe. There are no heroes in The Last Jedi. Fin tried to have a heroic moment to sacrifice himself to save his friends, but that was taken away from him (in a ridiculous moment where he is accused of acting out of hate rather than "protecting what he loves"). Po is accused of being a "hothead" when he tries to save everyone. Luke is just a bitter old man. Rey is more concerned with Kylo, who she barely knows, than with helping her friends (although she still manages to somehow get to the right place to save them, easily, at the end). No one in the galaxy is willing to answer the Rebel's distress call. And we also have the moment where we see that the Rebels buy their weapons from the same evil capitalist bastards as the First Order, so they're really just all the same, right? You'll blow up them today and they'll blow up you tomorrow, it's all hopeless and meaningless and part of the anarcho-capitalist machine. The scene where Luke looks at his light-saber and then contemptuously tosses it over his shoulder, basically encapsulates how this movie treats the universe that spawned it. 2. It ignores or dismisses major plot points established in The Force Awakens. This is the second movie of a trilogy. You can't just ignore things the first movie does and still be a successful sequel. But this movie consistently does. a) Biggest question of the first movie was, who is Rey? Everyone seems to know her. Kylo implies on multiple occasions that he knows something about her; Snoke seems to know something about her; she can sense Luke's lightsaber and then it seems to speak to her; she is better with the force than any untrained user we've ever seen. Clearly there is a story there, right? Nope. She's just a nobody (which makes her even more of a Mary Sue). b ) Snoke. Who is this super bad guy who has somehow managed to recreate the Empire and turn Kylo to the dark side without even meeting him? How did he get so powerful in the dark side of the force? Where did he come from, since all the Sith were supposedly dead after Return of the Jedi? Clearly there's a story there, right? Nope. He's just a plot point and now he's gone, so don't worry about it. c) The Knights of Ren. Remember them? There's a story there, right? Nope. Just forget you ever heard of them. d) Remember how the rebels blew up the First Order's super weapon? That must have really impresssed people and gotten them a lot of attention, right? Nope. The First Order is still super powerful, and the rebels have fewer ships and friends now than they did in Return of the Jedi. e) Wow, they finally found Luke! Remember how he left a secret map so they could find him if they ever needed him? Remember how people died trying to find and protect that map, because it was so important to find him? Clearly there will be a story there, right? Nope. He's on the island to die, not to help. Why did he leave a map? Just forget you heard about that. 3. How many things in the movie actually work or result in a meaningful accomplishment? Beyond being a bad Star Wars movie, the movie was just bad story-telling in general. a) The movie begins with this dramatic space battle where they (rather implausibly) take out a major First Order ship. This results in...nothing. No one celebrates, because lots of people died. The First Order isn't crippled in any way; they continue to pursue the rebels without pause. b ) Rey and Kylo spend the entire movie talking to each other; Rey leaves Luke to go "save" Kylo; Kylo kills Snoke rather than kill Rey; they have an (admittedly awesome) fight together, and this results in ...nothing. The moment the fight is over, Rey and Kylo immediately go back to fighting each other again and before you know it she's back in the Falcon fighting with the Rebels and he's chasing them, just like before. This was a massive story opportunity completely wasted. c) Yoda appears and helps Luke burn the Jedi books, giving a big speech about how pointless they are (and presumably they ARE pointless, since no Jedi we've ever seen has learned about the force by reading anything). What a dramatic moment of destroying the past, which results in...nothing. The books aren't actually in the tree, you silly viewers, they're in the Falcon! Because Rey valued them so much she stole them?? d) Luke has this awesome scene with Kylo at the end, and for a moment he seems like the Luke Skywalker we knew. He gives a callback speech about being cut down and then we learn Luke isn't even there...so he can't be killed by Kylo anyway. What a cool new power! This will set up a final confrontation between Kylo and Luke in the last movie right? Nope, it results in...nothing. Luke just dies because reasons. Why bother having him do this projection thing if he was just going to die anyway? (And what the hell was with the illusionary dice he gave to Leia?) e) The entire Las Vegas planet plot. Goes absolutely nowhere and accomplishes nothing, other than letting some animals loose (though they didn't free the slaves, amusingly) and showing how evil income inequality is. You're welcome, SJWs. f) Rey's moment in "the cave". Luke sees himself as Darth Vader. Most dramatic part of the movie. Rey sees herself, over and over and over again. (There's a message there, I'm sure). Rey is warned not to go in there. It's a scary place full of the dark side. But she risks it anyway and accomplishes...nothing. There's nothing down there. Silly viewers, you thought you were going to see her parents? Suckers. I could go on, but you get the point. Kylo Ren says, "Let the past die. Kill it if you have to." Well, mission accomplished, Rian Johnson. Yeah, I wouldn't expect people who haven't seen the movie to post in a thread discussing the movie...?