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effect = "softStencilShadow.fx";



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I read this forum (i believe carefuly) but i didn't find anything really useful about shadows. Can you please point out to me a few useful topics here about shadows? Thanks!



do you look for soft shadows?
there is the shader from Matt Aufderheide. if i remember correctly, George Pirvu posted it in AUM.
and don't forget to look at Sphere plugin (Matt's too).