Thanks, I did most of it. Turns out all the standard ways of doing shadows don't work with a.) that many units and b.) with that much difference in scale (compare a fighter next to a titan) so I had to come up with a custom way of doing it and c.) the combination of full camera rotation and arbitrary light source position.

So yes, shadows have been around for awhile but no one that I know of has had to deal with the same issues we had to. For those among you interested in the details, the shader itself will only give you a small piece of the puzzle and should look pretty familiar but maybe I'll a write up on the new stuff done on the CPU end.

I have some other new improvements I hope to get in before release.

Yep the shadows do look nice indeed, I run them on highest and they haven't caused me lag even near the end of match with 6 players.

I do find it a bit funny though that they updated pretty much everything graphically from textures on ships to skyboxes to lighting, but haven't seemed to go the extra mile and spice up the planets a bit. I mean after all the planets do get most of the screen time in my opinion, so why leave them unchanged?