Here is another shadowbakertest,
using a multitexturing terrain.
The resolution of the shadowmap is limited to 512x512
for speed reasons. It can be increased of course.

I have used some old wasteland artwork.
There are a course details like grass, rocks and garbage missing, it
is just a simple testcollection.
I have to look for better terraintextures too.

The shadowbaker can also recognize models, but I somehow like
the blocks more, as they also throw a shadow on themselves

Dude this is amazing! How did you do it? Did you make the shadow baking tool yourself? Will it be released to the community?

The shadow baking rouine ist just a part of my editor.
I made it myself. It is not too complicated, the main work is to
tune that it looks good.

Other parts of the editor are texture painting and hightmanipulation,
load/save and later placing models (like grass) directly into
the level-file.

Does your editor save it to a *.wmb file? Or fo you make your own file and loop through it reading variables and strings?

BTW, that shadows look amazing. Is it all dynamic or static?

That does look excellent. Just curious why that towere seems to be floating in mid air Other then that great work. really hope gamestudio gets something like soon.

I save everything to a textfile, and
a routine builds the terrain and places the Objects.

It can be mixed with a standard wmb level.
Saving the object to wmb would be possible (manipulating the wmb file directly), but there is no real need for
it.


The poles fload n the air, as They are attached to the top
of the building , no: since I cut off most of the strucure from the original building, there
is a little gap.
its just for a little test.

The shadows are static.
No chance to make them move with the sun.
Shaders can create dynamic shadows, but I need a high speed solution.
And in reality shadows move too slow to notice anyway.

I could actually make dynamic shadows for characters, by manipulating the
terraintexture. This should work for small objects.

What else to say ??
I think everything has being said already Damocles
Oke, one more time: AMAZING SHADOWS

Cheers

Frazzle

Looks assome dude, I can't believe all these different people are coming up with all these cool shadow effects themselves, is there a tutorial somewhere on how to make your own, or at least give you a jump start, because it would be assome if I could design my own, but I have no idea on where to start course it doesn't have to be a tutorial, if someone could give me a blurb on the concept behind it, and what tool/code they used.

hmh.. I have earlier seen easy ways to do things similar to this... but I am really surprised that you managed to get the shadows on to models! (Green markings)
And I see a little bug. The shadow is drawn on terrain even if the block is beneath the surface... (Read markings)
But it looks really good ^^!

True thats a bug, with the stone back there, somehow
the terrain does not get put into the you pointer in these places.
I have to check what is causing this.
But I will also implement a little brush to edit some minor shadow errors.

These are wed-blocks, I did not render the shadow onto them
This is just the normal shadowing on blocks.
Only the terrain gets a shadow additionally.