Point light shadow artifact [UNSOLVED]
by Bjarke Pedersen · in Torque 3D Beginner · 10/19/2013 (5:30 am) · 2 replies
I have a problem. When i put a lamp over a point light, it creates these weird shadow artifacts.
All the normals are correctly orientet.
Here is a wireframe:
When i rotate the point light, the artifacts also rotate.
This might have something to do with the way a point light works. You know, where it is mapped with two different sides. I have no idea how to fix this.
All the normals are correctly orientet.
Here is a wireframe:
When i rotate the point light, the artifacts also rotate.
This might have something to do with the way a point light works. You know, where it is mapped with two different sides. I have no idea how to fix this.
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But now there is a new problem. When i position the light up under the lamp, it gets completely blocked, and there are no trianlges with flipped normals to block the light.
Edit: It seems to be blocked by the bounding box. I might be wrong.
10/19/2013 (6:18 am)
I see what you mean. I found that the DualParaboloid works better. Note that the image placement might be messed up. Just open them in a new tab.But now there is a new problem. When i position the light up under the lamp, it gets completely blocked, and there are no trianlges with flipped normals to block the light.
Edit: It seems to be blocked by the bounding box. I might be wrong.
Associate Steve Acaster
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There's a ... gui in the editor that shows how selected lights work, but I can't remember what it is called right now - might be "shadowVis".
Also try other shadow types and fiddle with the shadow settings to see the difference.