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Just check the markers on the corners/ends of the platforms and the steps in them, the way the throw shadows.
http://www.the-commander.com/x2shading.html
This weeks theme is a feature in X2 -The Threat called shading. Bernd Lehan already displayed a few pics with this feature here in the forum some days ago. You might ask: "What is this shading all about". It is simply the ability of a newer video card to display shadows thrown by a lightsource. You might say: "So what?". If a developer of a game takes this feature into account when making a game and is using among other stuff textures in a game with grooves which get highlighted by "shading", one almost gets a 3D display look on the screen. If anything else in the game that moves or turns or rotates and throws shadows while doing so, the sensation of being in a "real" 3D Universe becomes almost realistic. This feature of course makes for an immense enjoyment viewing all this in a space simulation like X2 - The Threat.
As a bonus Screenshot an "old" friend when X started, the X Shuttle. What the X Shuttle is doing in X2 - The Threat you will have to find out for yourself
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. Love the more rounded edges, looks more sleek 
~Lonowski~
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