Why does shadowkick....

[ghostwriteous]

have no shadow? ant3:

 

[Mikemetroid]

Look under cage...or look behind him...

/thread.

 

[GNG Iniquity]

/thread

 

[ghostwriteous]

Look under cage...or look behind him...

/thread.

wasnt really meant to be a serious thread, but i knew the shadows were there in previous MK installments. thats why I was wondering why they choose not to add them to mk9

 

[PND_Mustard]

could be worse, could get the shadow effect cage had in annihilation D:

 

[Rathalos]

The effect was probably to particle intensive and caused slowdown.

If you hadn't noticed the particle effects in MK9 are kinda meh, they look cool artistically, but not so hot on a technical level. They probably have to sacrifice a lot to get the game running at 60 frames.

Before anyone brings up SF4 and yun's genei jin, the MT framework engine that powers SF4 is a completely different beast then the UE3 MK uses, UE3 wasn't really designed for high framerate in mind when it comes to consoles, and it really shows because out of the 100's of games that uses the engine, MK is the only one that is 60fps on a console.

This is all completely out of my ass though, maybe they just didn't like the effect, we will probably never know.

 

[Nick T.]

because most of the stages are dark and he can't cast a shadow.