Click to see enlarged before and after of effects Shadow Plug-In v3.0 Real three-d shadowing. Andromeda’s Shadow Plug-In is the most advanced shadowing plug-in available. It’s uniqueness is in using 3-D geometry to cast realistic shadows. A shadow of your input image is imposed on a Casting Plane that can then be manipulated in 3-D space behind or in front of the Input Image.

Individual cameras, light sources, and both expert and novice modes allow for complete creative control over any image shadow. Full of features, the Shadow Plug-In user interface gives you everything you need, right at your fingertips. Novice mode allows anyone to easily apply breathtaking drop shadows to images while Expert mode opens up expanded tools to tweak shadows exactly how you want them. The preset library loads a number of different shadow effects that show off the full capabilities of Andromeda’s Shadow Plug-In.

(3.2 MB) Key Features: • Perspective Shadows with a Virtual Camera • Stereo 3-D Viewing • Multiple Shadowing with up to Four Movable Lights • Natural Soft Edges and Blurring • Drop and Cast Shadows Imposed on Movable Planes • Real 3-D Shadowing • Novice and Expert Modes.

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Enough of the eagerness and euphoria has left my bloodstream that I can look at Mass Effect: Andromeda a little more objectively. If I were to write a review today, I would align myself with those who gave the game a 7/10. By my rating system, that'd be about 3.5/5. Regardless of whether people think it's a good score or not, I cannot condone the gaming industry's skewed and bullshit re-interpretation of ratings for games, and I condemn the bombardment of low ratings from players who hate the superficial faults and call the entire game a dumpster fire based on said shallow nitpicks. Also, a budget of $40 million isn't that much money in the realm of AAA games, especially when this industry is getting so massive that Hollywood will soon be sweating bullets. Mass Effect: Andromeda's problems vastly eclipse quantitative numbers regarding finances and 'five years'.

I may still say I love this game in many ways, but when I wake up and smell the coffee this game is a disappointment. Mass Effect: Andromeda took the franchise one step forward and two steps back for a variety of reasons more harmful than 'bad animations'. And above all, I fear the way Bioware will address these problems, much like every single major developer in the AAA market has done for almost a decade. Now that the Bioware Montreal team which worked on Andromeda is being downsized, my fears are coming true. Without a doubt, this series deserves better that what we got, but I want to pick at the miniscule specs of gold that is worth preserving and improving upon.

Here there be some SPOILERS. Mass Effect: Andromeda is a two-pronged blade where with every positive point there is a negative to its back that intimidates some, confuses others, and infuriates the rest.

I hate to give the game such a backhanded compliment, but seeing the beautiful intertwined with the ugly at every turn allowed me to embrace it more than the average player. I did not expect Mass Effect: Andromeda to stand taller than the original trilogy; I avoided much of the hype to dampen my excitement and diminish some of the inevitable disappointment.

With this approach, my frustrations did not last long enough to go on a ranting rampage despite my willingness to call out this game on its worst sins. One thing that never failed to calm me was the menu theme, 'A Better Beginning'.

Mass Effect: Andromeda's soundtrack does not stack up to the original trilogy's, but the music does capture the serenity of the beautiful new worlds, the chaos of combat, and the wistful cries of what could have been with more time, more effort, more resources, more of whatever magic failed to keep this game from suffering the backlash it endured. This game provided me hours to escape the real world and from work, and it helped me recover from the insanity of 2016. Sometimes just sitting there and allowing myself to bask in the menu theme for an hour eased whatever stress I had from the day or week. It's not the best piece of music - long, slow atmospheric pieces tend to bore me usually - but because it embodies the anxiety of exploring a new galaxy and struggling against several rough starts with no backup from home, I would place this in the same league as Shin Megami Tensei IV's menu theme in terms of warming up for the true meat of the game.

Graphically, Mass Effect: Andromeda also swallowed me whole. The transitions between planets and systems are brilliant ideas in theory, and on numerous occasions I simply let them play out. The sense of movement allowed me to better ease myself into the new world. While I enjoyed it, the fact the transitions were cutscenes rather than clever ways to mask loading times and that they were unskippable until the very first patch shows a level of incompetent oversight that baffles anyone with common sense. Once my mood improved over time, I joined the rest of the world in skipping them, albeit less often than the average player. Similarly, side quests I once did not mind pursuing on my first run were quickly abandoned on my second playthough. Part of me wishes to attempt a 100% run, but I burned myself out rather quickly, and I struggled to get back into the game when I needed to write out this post.