Well i dont have much to say, hence the boredom but i was a bit surprised to find Onyx confused over who was actually developing L3S. I will state now to dissuade further confusion that ALL CODING WAS DONE BY PHEONIX101, GearGOD, since his engine died, was a play tester and idea's man.

Hmmm, I just noticed that Pheonix L2S has reached 101 posts, if i had the L3S documentation ready i would release it now.

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Also i've made a pretty conclusive feature list of L3S:

- Light Bloom: Allows you simulate lights extending out of the monitors contrast ratio by specifying a threshold value at with light begins to glow and spread out. Includes 2 types of blurs, a guassian and a bloom specific guassian blur.

- Soft Shadows: Allows you to cast shadows which soften at the edges. They are most useful for static casters due to the rendering cost involved with casting soft shadows.

- Static Caster System: Three types, including mesh-based, surface based and dynamic surface based. Shadow casters can also be defined as “always dynamicâ€? so they will never cast a static shadow, but will always cast one even with static light casters.

- Emissive Objects/Tiles: Allows shadow casters and other objects to emit their own light and appear to glow.

- Specular Highlights: Allows shadow casters and other objects to realistically reflect light, very useful for materials like metal or for wet surfaces.

- Emboss Bump-mapping: Allows objects to appear to have deviations in their surface normal.

- Full z-axis support: Allows shadows to realistically cast based off the relative z positions of the light and shadow casters. Also higher shadows will obscure lower bumpmaps

- Polygon shadows: create your own shapes. You can also have a different z for each vertex, so you could create a pyramid if you liked.

- Inbuilt Shapes: Optimised inbuilt shadow casters, including the commonly used, boxes and barrels.

To close this completely useless blog, heres some pretty pictures to distract you from its uselessness:

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Cheers,