Originally Posted by
tertywerty
2.5 When lua scripting was introduced along with sm and am functions
3.0 when shaders and many other things were introduced.
3.3 when we had actual borderlands style cell shading, anaglyph and motionblur working. and mod maker with 3d objects
I agree on 3.0 actually. It really introduced everything we know and love today. Also, they took away cell shading because it made it looked very graphically incorrect especially on max graphic settings.
As the graphics improved cell shading was taken away.
Now you can buy cell shading as an item.