Dynamic lightning & shadows

[Goten]

Is it possible to mod that in?
Because honestly its killing my eyes that the game has barely any shadows.
Like in that leaked gameplay, he is walking in the metrocard shooting ghouls nothing casts shadows despite he is lightning up the entire area with his pipboy.

I mean its 2015, not 2003.
Even Doom 3 from 2004 has dynamic lightning and shadows for god's sake.

[Colen Bardbarian]

Originally posted by Goten:

Is it possible to mod that in?
Because honestly its killing my eyes that the game has barely any shadows.
Like in that leaked gameplay, he is walking in the metrocard shooting ghouls nothing casts shadows despite he is lightning up the entire area with his pipboy.

I mean its 2015, not 2003.
Even Doom 3 from 2004 has dynamic lightning and shadows for god's sake.

Do you know if this was pc gameplay?

[Goten]

Originally posted by WylieC0y0te:

Originally posted by Goten:

Is it possible to mod that in?
Because honestly its killing my eyes that the game has barely any shadows.
Like in that leaked gameplay, he is walking in the metrocard shooting ghouls nothing casts shadows despite he is lightning up the entire area with his pipboy.

I mean its 2015, not 2003.
Even Doom 3 from 2004 has dynamic lightning and shadows for god's sake.

Do you know if this was pc gameplay?

Its not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibL32QiVsDs

But that doesnt matter, since Bethesda never had dynamic lightning & shadows in their games.
And it looks horrible without that particularly in FO4, thats why i am asking if its possible.
Skyrim interiors were at least nice looking and had shadows placed here and there.
But FO4 is just plain ugly.

[Colen Bardbarian]

I will wait for pc before judging.

[toughy]

Luv the game, but this is definitely true and nowadays a no-go! Shadows are so important for an immersive atmosphere.

[SanicTK2]

Wish someone can make a mod that adds more shadow casting lights like the More Dynamic Shadows mod in skyrim, considering they are based on the same engine.

I mean, look at Fallout 3. Even most of the lights do that (objects won't cast, though) compared to Fallout 4.

[Nichtswisser]

Gamebryo is already struggling with all the lightning it was never designed to support. Dynamic shadows would probably kill the performance even on highend hardware.

[SanicTK2]

Originally posted by Nichtswisser:

Gamebryo is already struggling with all the lightning it was never designed to support. Dynamic shadows would probably kill the performance even on highend hardware.

Actually they could've created a new engine for newer features and better compatibility instead of using a 10-year-old engine. But you're right, the game is not really optimized right now and adding something will probably make it unplayable at all.

[uberbobo]

Umm the lighting and shadows look great in this. Your character cast shadows, everything otusisde from trees to the buildings all cast shadows. The ligthing looks amazing at times when your indoor in darker areas, you can see dogmeat shadows and other enemies shadows from around corners. That's really one the biggest visual upgrades they added this.

[kurgen]

Originally posted by uberbobo:

Umm the lighting and shadows look great in this. Your character cast shadows, everything otusisde from trees to the buildings all cast shadows. The ligthing looks amazing at times when your indoor in darker areas, you can see dogmeat shadows and other enemies shadows from around corners. That's really one the biggest visual upgrades they added this.

The lighting does look amazing most of the time, but then you get jarring inconsistencies where character shadows are cast by certain lights only, and none by others, giving that horrible floating person look, as seen in most parts of Vault 81.

[Goten]

Originally posted by uberbobo:

Umm the lighting and shadows look great in this. Your character cast shadows, everything otusisde from trees to the buildings all cast shadows. The ligthing looks amazing at times when your indoor in darker areas, you can see dogmeat shadows and other enemies shadows from around corners. That's really one the biggest visual upgrades they added this.

No they dont.
Turn on your pipboy or power armor light and you will see that nothing casts shadows.

[SanicTK2]

Originally posted by Goten:

No they dont.
Turn on your pipboy or power armor light and you will see that nothing casts shadows.

Looks like someone created a mod for this http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/281/? and it looks 10 times better now. Wish someone can do the same for all the other lights.