Hi everyone,

I've just started experimenting with stencil shadows, and I've run into a problem. I did a forum search and couldn't find anything, so if this has already been covered, then I apologize.

I have a few entities on top of a block-based table in a block-based level. I turned on the entities' shadows, using stencil shadows. The shadows themselves project perfectly...however, they project on the table top, and also on the floor directly below the table, hence the problem. It's as though the engine, in addition to projecting shadows onto the table, also projects the shadow onto the floor, as if the table isn't there. I emphasize that the table and floor are both blocks.

Do any of you have any idea why there would be two identical sets of shadows projected? Is it a problem with the table block being too thin? I tried increasing the size a bit, but it didn't help.

Thanks in advance for your help!

It's engine bug if I remember corectly
the same is with walls... stencil shadow will be on the wall but on the ground behind the wall also

Did you set?:
var shadow_stencil = on;

warning: setting "var shadow_stencil = on;" enable stencil shadows which may look better than z-buffer shadows but eat some performance too.

Stencil shadows go through all objects/blocks/etc...

They are infinitly projected...

Ah...drat. I wish there was a way to individually use either stencil shadows or z-buffer shadows on an entity-by-entity basis.

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It's engine bug if I remember corectly

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Its not a bug, this is the natural behavior of stencil shadows.. the way to prevent this is to make the table a model and have it cast a shadow too.