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Shadow Overlapping Problem

by Viren Thambidorai · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 09/17/2008 (5:39 am) · 4 replies

I have Orc mounted on car, but its' shadow overlaps with the car shadow.

Image location:
http://img34128.pictiger.com/images/16796124/

One solution would be turning off orc shadow while orc is mounted on car, but I've car model without top.
that's why I need Orc shadow too.

so somehow I need to make the mounted object(orc) as a part of car object when shadow is casted.It should consider both objects as a whole mesh geometry.

Also, I'm casting shadow on dts terrain object.


Any suggestion on how to do this ?

Thanks
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Torque 3D Owner Viren Thambidorai
#1
09/18/2008 (10:58 pm)
*BUMP* anyone ?

Associate Tom Spilman
Sickhead Games
#2
09/19/2008 (12:07 am)
If you look in sgShadowProjector::sgRenderShadowBuffer() you'll see that it has some special code for rendering the WheeledVehicle Wheels as part of the Vehicle's shadow map.

You would need to make sure this also renders the mounted player at the same time.

Torque 3D Owner Viren Thambidorai
#3
09/19/2008 (6:55 am)
Yea!! Thanks Tom.

That worked.

Torque Owner Ronald J Nelson
Code Hammer Games
#4
09/19/2008 (12:21 pm)
Yeah I changed my code so it rendered all mounted object shadows when it renders the vehicle.

It just looks better.