Road to Limansk is a mod for Clear Sky aimed at improving all aspects of game play.
Another of those little things little things enabled by reverse engineering the games .dlls( :) )
I can see why grass shadows were probably turned off in the original release. They are very Subtle but they would have hit hardware in 2008 pretty damn hard for minimal gain. Once you get used to them, grass looks weird though without it.
Also, Actor shadow works now and even changes with the suit your actor has on.
good to hear that actor shadow works! its soo much more immersive :)
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It really doesn't impact performance that much for a modern video card. Now that might change once the view distance is increased.
However, it can be turned off with a console command or by editing user.ltx so its not to big a deal if someone's computer can't handle it.