gideon_nine_ESO wrote: »

To have a shadow in 1st person would it require full-body-awareness?

That's an interesting point, I'm not all that familiar with the rendering side of things, but I imagine to make the shadow, you need the polys. But I'd imagine it should it be possible to make said polys transparent to the player. Though my understanding is the first person animations aren't the same as the 3rd person ones, so they're presumably have to fully flesh out the 1st person animations to avoid bizarness, assuming that is even possible. (quite possible in order to get arms feeling "right" in first person, they're actually coming out where the stomach would be, or somesuch)

That said, I've got to admit I never noticed the lack of shadows.

Since they changed how your character actually turns when in 1st person, just activating the 3rd person shadow in 1st person view would draw a shadow inconsistent with your actual orientation. For instance you would see your shadow standing sideways while looking straight ahead.

But I hope that they will implement good 1st person shadows in the future.

I can't actually think of any game that casts player-character shadows while in first person. No, actually I take that back Dead Island's player characters casted shadows. My guess is it's due to the way most games implement their first person mode(nothing but arms being rendered). Dead Island is one of the only first person games I've played that actually rendered the entire player character body as well(likely not a coincidence). From my relatively limited experience with game engines I'd wager it would require an entire rework of the current first person mode along with having a negative impact on performance and requiring further performance optimization.

I agree with @DaniAngione‌. Also if ZOS "add out feet"(lol!), we can get FPS drop because of our dyed armor.