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No Shadows

Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:16 pm
by Lord-Bandu
Iv imported a few new models and included in them shadowvolumes (the same way as in SWBF1 as the doc. says) but theyre are not turning up...... neither are my player shadows for some reason :?

Any1 got shadows workin?

Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:30 pm
by Teancum
Have you burned the terrain? (Image->Burn Terrain) You won't see some shadows until you burn terrain.

Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:40 pm
by Lord-Bandu
I dont think thats it ... cos the player shadows arnt in game either.

Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:56 pm
by Teancum
Exactly.

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 12:29 pm
by Lord-Bandu
Nope , tried it and it doesnt work

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:17 pm
by Lord-Bandu
ok heres an example of bothe problems


it shows a model iv made casting no shadows and you can see theres no shadow being cast by Anakin

Image

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:23 pm
by PaNzErgsp
Yo Bandu! Get on xfire i think i have a solution that is in the documentation, but i dont have the time to write it. Just get on xfire and ill show u. Its in the lighting documentation.

EDIT- look at shadow regions in the misc documentation.

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:46 pm
by Mikey_bizzle441
Yeah i think you have to do something with the lighting tool. I haven't gotten the time to read that part so I'm not completley sure.

Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:39 pm
by froshthewookie
I'm having a similar problem... But my soldiers have shadows, my objects don't... It looks rediculous... That map looks sweet BTW... Let me know when you get it working...

Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:41 pm
by EraOfDesann
froshthewookie wrote: That map looks sweet BTW... Let me know when you get it working...


Agreed. :D

Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:49 pm
by Lord-Bandu
I already sorted the shadow problems out .

Frosh, maybe you shiould try burning the terrain? its in the advanced terrain option in the top right of ZE

Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:01 am
by froshthewookie
I already did... Still doesn't work... It's really frustrating because I did EVERYTHING I'm supposed to...Except when I burn the terrain, I get this message:

"Next time you load a world to light the terrain, check the box at the bottom of the layer dialogue 'build accurate object collision'"

What does this mean? I can't figure it out... This just may be my problem...

Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:03 am
by Lord-Bandu
Maybe some of the objects just dont cast shadows?

Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:05 am
by froshthewookie
NONE of my objects cast shadows... Except my soldiers...

Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:19 am
by froshthewookie
Oh my gosh.... I fixed my problem... It wasn't my map settings that were messed up... I had the game shadows and lighting set to low...