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Wintermute Engine => Technical forum => Topic started by: Rave-n on September 13, 2007, 08:51:56 AM

Title: Shadow Geometry
Post by: Rave-n on September 13, 2007, 08:51:56 AM

Hi all,

 I am trying to add shadow geometry for stencil shadows for my character.

 I have .geometry file which includes the following:
  NODE
  {
    NAME = "shd_*"
    RECEIVE_SHADOWS = TRUE
  }

and in my .3ds file I have objects names "shd_wall1" and "shd_wall2" but neither of these objects show up in the scene editor when I use the "Display scene geometry button" and they do not receive shadows at run time.

Anybody got any suggestion/can tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Do the "shd_" objects in the 3ds file have to be planes/polys/mesh?

Cheers,

Rave-N

Title: Re: Shadow Geometry
Post by: Mnemonic on September 13, 2007, 05:32:41 PM

The geometry file should look like this:

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GEOMETRY
{
  NODE
  {
    NAME = "shd_*"
    RECEIVE_SHADOWS = TRUE
  }
}


Title: Re: Shadow Geometry
Post by: Rave-n on September 14, 2007, 05:13:01 AM

This is exactly what my .geometry file looks like.

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GEOMETRY
{
  {
    NAME = "shadow_*"
    RECEIVE_SHADOWS = TRUE
  }

}
I think I'm missing something here about what we're meant to do with the .geometry file.
I also tried opening the 3dactor demo project and it already has a .geometry file exactly like that, and then importing my .3ds into that and nothing shows up there either so maybe it's my 3ds files?

This is confusing the bajeebus out of me...

Cheers

EDIT:

Don't know what was wrong with the exports but now they seem to be working... something funny going on with max....  ???