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cypher
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Posted: 3rd Dec 2002 08:29
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How do I get a shadow to cast under my car? Sorry for such a simple question, but I am still waiting for my DBPro kit, so I don't have anyone else to turn to but the good people of this forum.

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KNau
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Posted: 3rd Dec 2002 12:11
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The most common ways are:

1) Create a plane object that sits at your character's feet and texture it with a shadow texture. This can be tricky because black is used for transparency which means your shadow will actually be light grey. The "blob" method doesn't look particularly great but it does the job and doesn't take up a lot of resources.

2) The other method is to take a copy of your model (preferably an extreme low polygon version) and squash it 100% on the y-axiz using the SCALE OBJECT command. Then color it black and you've got a perfectly shaped shadow that can also be animated to mirror the casting object. This looks better than the blob method but still isn't really accurate plus it takes up more memory and polygons.

That's about all that's available to the DB user, hope this helps.

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John H
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Posted: 3rd Dec 2002 14:07
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You can also create a sphere and make it project a ray like the sun. Check out the www.darkbasic.net tutorials. One is 'Shadowing'

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cypher
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wow, that was fast response. This is great!

tx fellow coders
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Epidemicz
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what about dbpro, are there commands in dbpro for shadows or at least different ways to go about them?

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The Wendigo
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There actually is a dbpro method to create real shadows, unfortunaetly ive never used it and I heard it runs slow on 3D acceleraters less than GeForce 3 (which I have, yey me!)

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