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Why do older games have better shadows?
Hello, I'm CrazyKilla
Sorry but I don't know where to put this thread so I dumped it into general discussion.
I noticed that older games such as Dawn of War and F.E.A.R. have really nice shadows, it's like a copy of the model is made transparent, dark and flat and put on the ground, but now in these newer games all shadows have a resolution, usually a very low one and anything that goes above 4k has a giant performance hit.
What's the deal? do some companies just choose to use certain shadows, is there something wrong with the older ones?