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Changing shadow direction?

by Colin Doncaster · in Torque Game Engine · 10/08/2002 (7:12 pm) · 3 replies

Is it possible to change the direction of the shadow? Is it based of a hero light? Also, can more than 1 light cast a shadow and is there a way to change the colour of it?

Thanks - Colin.
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Torque Owner Simon Windmill
#1
10/08/2002 (10:30 pm)
It's based on the sun position in the mission. Change it in the editor and relight.

There's no support for multi-shadow-casting lights.

Torque Owner Colin Doncaster
#2
10/08/2002 (11:09 pm)
That seems to change the world lighting, I'm curious about the players shadow and how that's cast.

Thx, C.

Torque Owner Richard O
#3
10/09/2002 (6:52 am)
Colin,

Unfortunately, the player shadow is presently hardcoded in the engine. Look at the module engine\game\shapeBase.cc and do a find for Point3F lightDir(0.57f,0.57f,-0.57f);. You can modify the lightDir value to match whatever you have set in your mission file (e.g. under the Sun datablock; the parameter direction), to have the player shadow case in the same direction as everything else.

Rich