So, my thanks to Vint Falken for pointing me towards the open source version of the viewer created by Kirstenlee Cinquetti. (She didn't do this personally, it's on her blog.) I personally have two very good video cards in SLI in my rig and so I was pretty sure it would work. But I'm thrilled.... take a look....
Neit's Treehouse... those shadows are done by the client, not 'drawn' as part of the build!
Neit's Treehouse but look at the detail on the stairs.
Proof that it's fairly dynamic as you can see my shadow on the wall of my store.
Trees and my shadow on the hill.
Kirsten's viewer is very nice, it's like the dazzle version but with a darker blue to the buttons which has made all the difference to me as the aqua color makes my eyes water. I highly recommend it if you've the hardware to run it.
Now, what this means as a builder, I'm not quite sure, I've not been one to incorporate a ton of drawn shadows into my builds, but I could easily see building a shadow version and a non shadow version using this to point out where I should put the 'drawn' shadows as oppossed to the dynamic ones that this edition of the viewer provides. I'm not sure that's a well constructed sentence, but I'm off in search of more eye-candy.
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