Hello everybody

Is there a way to make the GS apply shadow mapping to an imported 3D model??

Kind regards

You can use stencil shadows. Just check if the shadow flag is set an set shadow_stencil = on;
But there are also Shaders which do a very good realtime softshadowmapping. I think Wetain is writing such a shader.

Dark_Samurai

Thanks for your help Dark Samurai, but I still have doubts about it.

First of all, I've tested this shadow flag (shadow_stencil) but it did not work. I think that this kind of shadow flag doesn't really work to imported object, I mean, it supposes to work just to 3D models created into 3DGS Model Editor. Wht do you think?

In another hand I was wondering if have you an url to download that (softshadowmapping)?

Thanks so much for such help.

RichardGP

Maybe, you think of shadow baking?

If so, the Model Editor can't do that.

In game, you get vertex shading and stencil shadow.

Are you talking about dynamic shadow and a moving and animated model, or, about an environmental model, and does a baked shadow the job? Because for not moving baked shadow there is a plugin available.

Hi Pappenheimer.

Yes I'm talking about a dynamic shadow to moving and animated models (as a character and animated trees), so i'm glad about the plugin but I dont thing that it will helps me, you know ...

Well, I've never ever heard about "shadow baking" before. In fact, it sounds like a precomputed alpha-images which are pre located in the scene. If so, it is not useful, because, as I said, I want know if 3DGS is able to do soft shadow mapping to any kind of 3D models and not only to those which come from the Model Editor.

I think that it is a important feature to a engine as 3DGS as well, and I can not see 3DGS without it.

At this point Im really concerned about it, because, the new generation games need to understand the shadows dynamicly and created a visible difference between a completely black shadow and a smooth one.

I'm sure that there is a solution and I still asking you guys about it!

Thanks a lot

RichardGP

i have a shader to make soft shadows for any 3dobject in scene but it doesnt work for animated models

RichardGP. I understand your desire.

But currently 3DGS does not have such soft real-time shader. Conitec works on a solution and there is already a first set of shadow-shaders in a beta version. Some users also made similar shadow-shaders but they also do work only in beta versions of the engine because of new exposed post-processing features.

So we have to wait for a christmas present or for 2008. Nobody knows it.

Hi guys!

Thanks for your answers!

sCKan, can you send me the url of this shader, even it doesn`t solve the problem to animated models, I believe that it could be useful

Frank, thanks! I really understand that point and I'm gonna wait my "Christmas Gift" ----- Thanks a lot

Well I still here and I will continue sending updates about this point.

Thanks a lot!

RichardGP

This is what you need, but it hadn't been released up to now:
http://www.coniserver.net/ubbthreads/sho...e=0&fpart=1
As I said, it's developed by Wetain and looks very promissing. It should also work with A6, but it's not that easy to use like with the new A7 Beta.

Dark_Samurai