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FPSC Classic Product Chat / how to use shadows!

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TEST OF WILL
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Posted: 7th Aug 2007 20:59
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People keep asking how to use shadows here is an example install this and mess around with it, it shows you how shadows are and examples

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Posted: 7th Aug 2007 21:36
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Uhm what is this?
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TEST OF WILL
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Posted: 7th Aug 2007 22:30
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It is a map made with stock content showing shadows because people keep asking about them
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Nomad Soul
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Posted: 8th Aug 2007 02:02
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I found that dynamic shadows can be used to good effect when doing some testing with them in my early map development days.

This was pre Dark Lights being implemented into the engine which gives us all those cool shadows from static geometry now but I thought it was quite good for the time.

See the accurate shadow being rendered on the house underneath the roof and from the railing on the floor. Also the shadow is cast from the house onto the rock towards the back and from the wooden drum.

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Posted: 8th Aug 2007 02:03 Edited at: 8th Aug 2007 02:04
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And from a different view you can see the dynamic shadow on the rock slightly better

I don't tend to use dynamic lighting with the new lightmapping FPSC has to offer but it has it's moments.

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Ok dude how did you do that did you make the light dynamic or the objects dynamic and the objects immobile or something?
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My computer can't handle dynamic shadows, it just crashes and I shout a lot. If you want really sharp shadows with Dark Lights, just change the properties in the setup.ini file so that it comes out with 1024x1024 shadows with no feahtering around the edges. It takes ages to calculate, but the overall effect is better, and the game runs faster.

But I bet you already knew that though.

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Posted: 8th Aug 2007 23:37
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Quote: "Ok dude how did you do that did you make the light dynamic or the objects dynamic and the objects immobile or something?"


First of all you need to make any entities that you want to have dynamic shadows cast from dynamic.

As with the new FPSC lightmapping system, dynamic shadows will only be cast from static light sources. In the first screenshot I posted you can see where the static light source is coming from on the right hand side.

In the scene I'm showing the house has been made immobile but the wooden drum is mobile so you can pick it up, throw it and have the dynamic shadow cast on any of the geometry in your level.

I thought dynamic shadows were going to be the answer for Doom 3 esque shadow effects but dynamic shadows cannot be used on animated objects at the moment e.g. swinging light fixtures / rotating fans etc. It's a shame because that would be awesome.

Quote: "But I bet you already knew that though."


I was aware of this but hadn't tried it yet so thanks for the information. I'll give it a go!

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AaronG
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Posted: 9th Aug 2007 01:39
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Just go to the setup.ini and make dynamiclights=0 to =1.

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@TEST OF WILL

Dude I don't know what you were thinking or doing but that is not a very good example of using shadows.

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Posted: 12th Aug 2007 17:52
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I found the dynamic shadows setting along time ago and added it to my FPSC launcher while I was still working on Hostile Environment. Now if I can just find my launcher's source again


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