This shouldnt be a problem and Im sure Im overlooking something simple here, but I seem to remember being able to have blocks cast shadows onto terrain in the last version of A6-since updating to 6.40 my blocks do not cast any shadows onto any terrain in my levels.

I have tried placing blocks beneath the terrain, and have deployed dynamic and static lights, fiddled with ambient levels and attached various materials.I have also used a light-emitting mdl with the cast flag set. Also tried the new shadow variables but no luck.

As a workaround I even tried to stop using blocks altogether in favour of compiled map entities-but still no shadows at all on terrain.

Only models cast terrain shadows for me. Dont know what else to do.

If anyone can solve this problem I would also like to know how I might get shadows using a terrain Ive created using the MTLmultiterrain.wdl template.

Look forward to hearing anything at all.

(My videocard- ATIRadeonPro 9800)

Ehm, level geometry was never intended to cast volume shadows. You could write directly on the shadowmap of the terrain, there is a script on the WIKI which does this job. Or you wait a little bit: JCL stated that the Compiler will be able to cast block geometry shadows on static geometry (model without actions, terrain) and vice-versa on one of the next updates (has to do with the new render kernel).

ok-look forward to any more news on this topic.

Cheers.