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[annapad]

hello
how are you guys..Thanks again for this great engine
I have another question to ask ... This is something that happens in almost every scene of my game although the actor is correctly placed in the back of every entity his shadow is not hidding behind ...I have fixed the problem temporarily by setting the light position in a way that affects the shadow position so it will be very close to actor and not to be spread away.. Im thinking that a solution of the problem may be to to include the mesh of the object in the hidden geometry.. I Havent tried it though...I was just wondering if there is another way to hide the shadow behind an entity without including the entity's mesh in the hidden geometry...Thanks in advance...sorry again for my bad english

[Akatosh]

Hello,

I'm not a graphics artist but I think that problem is clearly due to the scene geometry. Also, try changing the scene's shadow type to "Stencil shadow" so it can adapt to the geometry.

I don't think theres another way to hide the shadow manually in those situations. But I could be wrong.

[Mnemonic]

Yes, you have two options. Use stencil shadows and let them adapt to the table geometry, or use the usual scene layering mechanisms, as described in the scene creation tutorial (namely dealing with the desk overlapping in step 3 of the tutorial or the chair in step 6).

The easiest way would be:

• create a sprite for the table image
• move the sprite's hotspot to this position:

• place the sprite to the scene in SceneEdit and move it to the correct position

Now the table should overlap the shadow.