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FPSC Classic Models and Media / Character Shadows??

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Puff
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Hi there,

I'm new to the forums and FPSC but it is such an awesome program and I'm getting the hang of it now.

But when i preview a floor say the characters have no shadows, is there any way i can give them shadows just to add to the realism?

Thanks,
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Greek freak
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Posted: 24th Oct 2007 14:48
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I think with an update of FPSC?

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Butter fingers
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If you mean the characters casting real shadows of themselves, forget it. Stencil shadow shading is CPU intensive, and would only kill your FPS more.

Although FPSC has beautiful shadows, they are created by the lightmapper, which creates the shadows before the game starts. for characters to cast shadows, they would have to be calculated live, which would require a shader.

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Puff
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Thank you for the fast replies

I'll just leave it ^^
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Johny English
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The shadows can have only the non-animated objects. Characters can't have shadows.

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Butter fingers
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Thanks for summarising exactly what I said johnny. Although congratulations on making a post that actually made sense.

I just realised, you could make better looking shadows by changing the image in the
gamecore\decals\blob\ folder.

if you replace the circle with say, a static human shadow, you would at least get some kind of human shadow. or you could make the blob totally transparent, which wouldn't give you shadows at all, but would at least get rid of the crappy round one!

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SamHH
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Couldn't we fake it with a plane on the floor thats alpha mapped?
Darn it butters beat me.


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Butters that was mean

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