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How to make TSStatic have shadows

by Adam Beer · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 07/02/2008 (1:45 pm) · 5 replies

I have looked through some of the source for TSStatic, and I cant find where I would add the shadowEnable variable to it. If I add it in TSStatic::TSStatic(), I get an undeclared identifier error. Is there anywhere for TSStatic objects that I can add the shadow variables in?
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Torque Owner Ronald J Nelson
Code Hammer Games
#1
07/02/2008 (2:15 pm)
What version of TGEA are you using Adam? I got it to work in 1.03 but had to make some code changes I ripped from 1.7.

Torque Owner Adam Beer
Ignition Games Inc.
#2
07/02/2008 (2:24 pm)
Im using 1.7.

Torque Owner Ronald J Nelson
Code Hammer Games
#3
07/02/2008 (8:10 pm)
OK not sure which way this applies to you but here goes. Your object has to have either a collision mesh or polysoup enabled. It worked for me.

Torque Owner Sorin Daraban
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#4
07/03/2008 (11:57 am)
To Ron Nelson:

What kind of shadows do you get by enabling polysoup, dynamic(moving) or static (baked in)?
And where do you enable the shadow in the code?

Torque Owner Ronald J Nelson
Code Hammer Games
#5
07/07/2008 (1:09 am)
Static. Sorry for the slow response. The shadow is automatically enabled when you use polysoup. Just relight the scene after setting the polysoup flag. If you want TSStatics to have Dynamic Shadows you are going to have to make them StaticShapes with datablocks.