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[FogGobbler]

Hi!

I was wondering how to get dynamic shadows working. As far as I know, the shadow_light is set to the relative position of the actor in the scene. When my actor walks around a light source the shadow should change its direction though, otherwise it looks very odd indeed  .

It would be nice to define a light source in the 3ds file like for the walk and block objects (i.e. "shdlight_*"). Then the WME would have the position of this light and could do some calculations to simulate a dynamic shadow (direction and perhaps even the length of the shadow). That way you could even perhaps have more than one shadow-light in the scene.

It would be lovely to have such a feature 

Or is there another way of simulating real shadows at the moment (perhaps with regions?) . How could that be done?

Thanks,
Oli

[FogGobbler]

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[Mnemonic]

I don't think it can be done at the time being. As it is now, one would have to periodically change the light position as the actor moves, not really feasible IMO.

[FogGobbler]

Okay, thanks for your reply. I´ve tried moving the light, but without success.

Do you think that "realistic" shadows and advanced light effects are possible in (near) future WME versions?
I´m asking, because I´d like to inform publishers what is possible and what could be done during development time.

Greets,
Oli

[Mnemonic]

I'm not going to promise you this. The development efforts are concentrated elsewhere right now (tools..).
When "informing publishers", you should always take WME as-is.

[FogGobbler]

Okay, I understand that you can´t make any promises. Since development time will take at least 9 months, I still can hope that this feature will be on your the top of your to-do list 

[jbw]

Look at it from another point of view: we want true fixed light for the shadow. Currently that light isn't fixed as it walks everywhere with the actor (it is not common in the real life). I think the shadow light should be sticked to the scene, not to the actor's head. ;-)

[FogGobbler]

That´s what I´m dreaming of  . I fixed light source would be great.