question about Terrain shadows

#1 It's kinda hard to understand your question... You are asking if there's a way to avoid the terrain casting shadows?

#2 If you do not want the shape to be affected by shadows/lighting, set the texture material to "emissive". That will stop your object from recieving shadow or any lighting other then i think off my head, the ambient level.

Or are you trying to make a second terrain block that does not cast shadows underneath it ? If its the terrain, then I am pretty sure you cant without some some source changes.

#3 It appears that the OP wants to know why the TSStatic's castShadows property is unchecked when the sun's castShadows property is unchecked. This would be a strange way to have the sun stop casting shadows - by walking all objects and un-checking their castShadows property....

#4 Thanks Oscar Velzi , Andy Wright, Richard Ranft

Sorry for my bad english
I want to know is to avoid the terrain casting shadows.

#5 linky

#6 You can find here Terrain Tiling / Shadow a small resource I did which removes the terrain shadow and also allows some terrain tiling in T3D

#7 So a question for everyone... should we add a 'NoShadows' option to TerrainBlock? In what cases would you not want shadowing from the terrain?

#8 Yep, and if possible try to solve also the issue of light-map when tiling terrain ^_^

#9 Thank you very much,Steve!
The problem was solved by courtesy of Steve.

Thanks to you all.

#10

Quote:The problem was solved by courtesy of Steve

Almost as usual, I would say ;P

#11 @Frank

Quote:try to solve also the issue of light-map when tiling terrain

I don't think i know that issue... is there a forum thread for it?

#12 >I don't think i know that issue... is there a forum thread for it?
Just checkout link in reply #6, right here in this topic.

#13

Quote:So a question for everyone... should we add a 'NoShadows' option to TerrainBlock? In what cases would you not want shadowing from the terrain?

We already have that in our game. It's a top down / isometric game, and most terrain is flat, so shadows being cast by it it's not reflected anywhere.

#14 i added 'enableShadow' option to TerrainBlock used by Steve's Link.

so i possible realtime enable/disable shadow for terrainblock shadow in worldeditor.

#15 declare variable in terrData.h

F32 mSquareSize;

   bool menableShadow;	// Mquaker :: Terrain Shadow Option

   PhysicsBody *mPhysicsRep;

init variable in terrData.cpp

TerrainBlock::TerrainBlock()
 : mSquareSize( 1.0f ),
   menableShadow( false ),	// Mquaker :: Terrain Shadow Option
   mScreenError( 16 ),

add 'enableShadow' option field for TerrainBlock

// Mquaker :: Terrain Shadow Option >>>
      addField( "enableShadow", TypeBool, Offset( menableShadow, TerrainBlock ), 
         "enable/disable TerrainBlock Self Shadow");
      // Mquaker :: Terrain Shadow Option <<<
   
      addProtectedField( "squareSize", TypeF32, Offset( mSquareSize, TerrainBlock ),
         &TerrainBlock::_setSquareSize, &defaultProtectedGetFn,
         "Indicates the spacing between points on the XY plane on the terrain." );

add packdata for Net in terrData.cpp

if ( stream->writeFlag( mask & SizeMask ) )
      stream->write( mSquareSize );

   stream->writeFlag( menableShadow );	// Mquaker :: Terrain Shadow Option

add unpackdata for Net in terrData.cpp

if ( stream->readFlag() ) // SizeMask
      stream->read( &mSquareSize );

   menableShadow = stream->readFlag();	// Mquaker :: Terrain Shadow Option

edit render routine in terrRender.cpp
this code based Caylo Gypsyblood's resource.

const bool isColorDrawPass = state->isDiffusePass() || state->isReflectPass();

   if ( !menableShadow && !isColorDrawPass ) return;   // Mquaker :: Terrain Shadow Option

#16 Thanks for the feedback guys.... i added a ticket for it. THREED-1563

#17 Fixed in 1.1 Final. TerrainBlocks now how the castShadows variable.

#18 good job! thanks!