No Shadows

Lord-Bandu · Post by **Lord-Bandu** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:16 pm

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?

Post by **Teancum** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:30 pm

Have you burned the terrain? (Image->Burn Terrain) You won't see some shadows until you burn terrain.

Lord-Bandu · Post by **Lord-Bandu** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:40 pm

I dont think thats it ... cos the player shadows arnt in game either.

Post by **Teancum** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:56 pm

Exactly.

Lord-Bandu · Post by **Lord-Bandu** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 12:29 pm

Nope , tried it and it doesnt work

Lord-Bandu · Post by **Lord-Bandu** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:17 pm

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

PaNzErgsp · Post by **PaNzErgsp** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:23 pm

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.

Mikey_bizzle441 · Post by **Mikey_bizzle441** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:46 pm

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.

froshthewookie · Post by **froshthewookie** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:39 pm

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...

Post by **EraOfDesann** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:41 pm

froshthewookie wrote: That map looks sweet BTW... Let me know when you get it working...

Agreed.

Lord-Bandu · Post by **Lord-Bandu** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:49 pm

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

froshthewookie · Post by **froshthewookie** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:01 am

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...

Lord-Bandu · Post by **Lord-Bandu** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:03 am

Maybe some of the objects just dont cast shadows?

froshthewookie · Post by **froshthewookie** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:05 am

NONE of my objects cast shadows... Except my soldiers...

froshthewookie · Post by **froshthewookie** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:19 am

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...