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AlbertoT
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Hello

In DarkBasicSDK Demo 9 of 14 Road Terrain , the bikers cast a shadow
I would like to know how did the programmer get such effect since the shadow functions do not work

Thanks in advance

Alberto
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Posted: 18th Sep 2005 00:25
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I believe its a sprite - unless the code has been updated to actually show a proper shadow. Its been pointed out that the shadow is the wrong way around.

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Miguel Melo
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Posted: 18th Sep 2005 12:54
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I looked at the code and it is a blitted shadow. That's why it shows up in my Radeon 9200 (hint, hint, moan, moan).
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Posted: 18th Sep 2005 13:04 Edited at: 18th Sep 2005 13:05
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Have you tried my Planet demo - that uses proper shadows ?
If that works okay, then it could be your code...

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AlbertoT
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Actually your demo does not work on my PC.
I get the error massage ,D3DX9_25.DLL can not be found
I have been using dark SDK for some months and everything is ok , a part from shadow and some minor issues.
Can you help me ?, thanks a lot

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You can download D3DX9_25 by having a quick search on the Internet.

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Miguel Melo
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@Nick: Tried your planets demo. I do get a small shadow cast on the bigger planets from what I assume is the moon (looking at your code) on the 9600 card but _NOT_, as I expected, on the 9200. It really is a dgsdk implementation limitation.
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Erick G
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Quote: "It really is a dgsdk implementation limitation."


Or a video card limitation ?
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Posted: 20th Sep 2005 11:37
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I would think its a limitation of the 9200 - its possible the 9200 doesn't have stencil buffers (if thats how DBPro does it) or shadow volume/mapping.

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Miguel Melo
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I could be a videocard limitation but as I mentioned in another post

a) The 9200 does have a stencil buffer;
b) All other engines (irrlicht, ogre, cipher etc) that have real shadows render fine in it.

Of course the dbpro/dgsdk could _in theory_ have a totally different implementation from the other engines: that's why I asked in an earlier post if Lee or Mike could shed some light on it - but got no reply.

But since when you go through DX there are only so many ways you can do this, I am more inclined that there is some minor bug in the parsing of the card's capability flags that is needlesly disabling shadows in these cards (someone in the dbpro confirmed the problem on the 9000 too).
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Miguel Melo
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BTW, to give you some context, the reason I keep going on about shadows is that they are particularly important on the project I am starting.

Since the project _needs_ shadows (due to the design) and _needs_ to run on lower-end cards (due to the target demographics) I'd like to have this working on all the radeons it is humanely possible or risk having to consider using another engine (which I'd rather not).
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Anything from a TNT2 has stencil buffers. What is your code for shadows?

The planet one may be using shaders, you need to enable cpu shadows.
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AlbertoT
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Hello

I created a textured plain and a cylinder just for testing shadows
but the dbSetShadowShadingOn ( ) simply does not work
It seems to be an empty function.
If so I go on ,with my project waiting for next updating otherwise I try to fix my code

Do dynamic shadows work ?

An yes\no answer ,please !
Thanks in advance

Alberto
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I use dbSetShadowShadingOn in my demo...

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Miguel Melo
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DGDK (and DBPro) seem to be annoyingly picky about what hardware they support shadows on. I cannot get shadows in a Radeon 9200 (that has both stencil buffer and VS 1.1). Someone else reported no shadows on a Radeon 9000 either (don't know about this card's specs).

Shadows do work on my 9600 pro, though. Still, I think that (hardware-wise) the 9200 should have been enough.
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