I would prefer a special single shadowmap. That can be used for overaying another texture or for a shader (e.g. the blue channel in the template shader).

The method can even fully support the template terrain shader and bake the shadow directly into the blue channel of the bitmap. We can still extract that channel with "The GIMP" or "Photoshop".

Regards,
Frank


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