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[chrisras]

I have some strange Shadows between the legs of my 3D-Actor.


Anyone an idea what could cause that?

[FogGobbler]

Hard to say, because the image is quite small  .

Have you tried to alter the shadow-light-source-position in the actor file?

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LIGHT_POSITION { x, y, z }// change values

Perhaps the light is stuck inside the actor mesh and that causes these artefacts.

[chrisras]

I played around with the position of the light, but the strange shadow lines in the middle of my actors legs stayed...
I tried putting the light inside the actor, for comparing the effect, and that looks completly different than my bug.

I also tried giving my actor a lowpoly-model for shadowing, but the shadow-lines stayed there.

Could it be a problem with my 3dmax-file?
But it seems fine...

[FogGobbler]

Have you tried different clipping values in the scene editor?

[Dan-D]

Or if you are using separate shadow model make sure that you rigged it good

[Mnemonic]

Perhaps your model contains holes (unconnected vertices)? So the shadow volume leaks through.

[chrisras]

Thanks for the help!
It was really a rigging problem.
In 3DsMax it showed up fine but in the engine one of the vertices behaved very strange.
It was connected to a bone, I tried around with different weights, but it always ended up on
the floor in Wintermute... So eventually I edited the mesh and deleted the vertex.

And now everything looks perfect