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[fireside]

I'm just curious right now as I'm just going through the documentation, but I was wondering how one would do the old fashion blob shadow with a character? 

[Mnemonic]

It depends whether we're talking about 3D character or 2D characters. For 3D characters there's direct support for "blob" shadows, lookup "simple shadows" in the documentation.
For 2D characters either make the shadow part of your sprites, or add the shadow image as a subframe in SpriteEdit.

[fireside]

For 2D characters either make the shadow part of your sprites, or add the shadow image as a subframe in SpriteEdit.

That sounds like quite a bit of work either way. I would need to attach subframes to every frame?  Is there some way to do it all at once?  Is there some way to script a sprite that follows the character movement and get's drawn first?  That would be the easiest.

[Mnemonic]

Currently not, it will be possible in the next release.

[fireside]

Currently not, it will be possible in the next release.

O.K.

[fireside]

Now, with the updated version.  What would I do to attachObject() to say the Molly character to have a blob shadow?

[Mnemonic]

1) Create a sprite containing the blob image, preferrably with the hotspot in the middle.
2) Create a new entity file, which will reference the shadow sprite:

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ENTITY
{
  SPRITE = "path\shadow.sprite"
}
3) In actor's script call something like:

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this.AddAttachment("path\shadow.entity", true);


[fireside]

Thanks.