Hey folks, ok basically I got a level full polygons (mdl files), works fine with shade-c
The framerate is brilliant.
As soon as I add shadow stencils..


shadow_stencil = 3; // "3" is accelerated z-pass stencil shadows
shadow_threshold = 50; // only cast shadows in rooms lit by static lights
shadow_range = 10; // speed up rendering by displaying shadows only in a short radius
shadow_lod = 3; // lowest lod (if it exist)
stencil_blur(1); // activate blurred shadows <-- LITE-C only!


..everything dies.

I've tried shadow_stencil 1 to 4 nothing changes.

is there a smarter way out of this? like backing shadows before the game actually starts?

If yes, Can you post some links or code please?

Thank you

PS = Mainly I'm looking for a shadow that is casted by an mdl upon itself and other mdls.

I've found out that it's Shade-c that affecting the shadow stencils kills my framerate completely.
Probably the depth of field tries to blur the shadow stencils too and those calculations being done realtime are the reason for my fps being killed.
Is there a way out of this? Can I set shade-c not to interfere with shadow stencils? or even better can i set shadow stencils to be rendered once for static objects like a wall. while they continue to being rendered realtime for my player?

shadwo stencil is a realtime shadow that is updated for every entity while playing the game. So it is only useful for moving entities.

For static models use invisible blocks or a shader (wiki)

Nevermind, sorted. Thanks for the tip