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Shadow question

by Bryce · in Torque Game Engine · 11/28/2009 (2:30 pm) · 2 replies

Hello everyone,

I design my player models in Milkshape 3D, and its exporter allows me to have shapes with a detail level of -1 which forces those shapes to not render. From what I've seen, I'm assuming that shapes render the shadow of their lowest detail level, but this is causing problems because the shadow of the should-be hidden shapes are showing.

If anybody can make any sense of this, would there be a way to force the engine (I'm using 1.4.2) to render the shadow of the shape at detail level 0?

Thanks!
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Torque 3D Owner Thomas Huehn
#1
11/28/2009 (3:10 pm)
I did fix it some time ago, was not easy to find it again. I mark all changes with (XXTH) in the engine but at the moment there are 1520 lines in 303 files with "XXTH" ;)


In sgObjectShadows.cc look for this part in sgObjectShadows::sgRender
and add the 0 to selectShapeDetail:

if(shadow->needBitmap())
		{
			shadow->beginRenderToBitmap();
			//XXTH detail min 0 added !  THIS MAKE RENDER SHADOWS NOT ON THE COLLISION MESH !! 
			shadow->selectShapeDetail(shapeinstance, dist, maxscale,0); 
			//orig: shadow->selectShapeDetail(shapeinstance, dist, maxscale); 
			shadow->renderToBitmap(shapeinstance, parentobject->getRenderTransform(), pos, scale);

			if(shapebase)
			{

Torque Owner Bryce
Tactical AI Kit
#2
11/28/2009 (5:57 pm)
Thank you, this worked! The shadow issue has been bugging me for a long time...