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Final does not mean last. Great work on the patch. Experienced a crash to desktop with a "Report to Microsoft-Message" yesterday. I believe, that the server (Evolution V2) crashed for some reason and that this caused all clients to crash as well.

Here are some in-depth articles about the two shadow-casting techniques: Shadow Mapping Shadow Volume The first one is texture-based and causes those jagged edges, if the texture resolution is low. This can be avoided to some extend by applying a blur effect, such as a gaussian filter. Performance mainly depends on the resolution of the shadow-texture. The second method relies on finding silhouettes and projecting them onto world-geometry to create shaded areas. Unfortunately it is kind of hard to get blurry shadows with this approach. Performance mainly depends on the geometric complexity of the objects casting shadows.