Terrain Shadow Artifacts

No, that's some sort of error in spring's shadow rendering. It's nothing particularly new.

I actually don't. I think what you're seeing is the video compression reducing the colour contrast.

Shadowfury333, the reason I thought you had terrain shadows disabled was because I saw floating tree shadows in one of your recent casts. The only way I see that is when I have unit shadows on and terrain shadows off.



Floating tree shadows at 3:57

I think the reason that occurs is probably related to the fact that terrain tiles are rendered as individual tiles rather than a solid surface. Shadow acne generally only occurs on lit surfaces, as a result of numerical imprecision causing a surface to appear to shade itself, and not ever in full shadow. This is more likely a case of light leaking through the cracks in the terrain.