Easy way to make soft shadows

Posted By: 3dworld

Easy way to make soft shadows - 09/23/08 17:00

Hello everybody. I've been trying to create soft shadows for models using scripts that have been published previously in demos but there is no way confused . I'm driving crazy. crazy Please can someone help me. I have no script at hand or anything.

Thank you very much.
Posted By: croman

Re: Easy way to make soft shadows - 09/23/08 17:13

Real (not default shadows in 3dgs) are quite hard to create with 3dgs lite-c, for now. I hope that conitec will help us with that or maybe some of the plugins will soon be finished.

I wasn't clear enough try reading -Shaders and -A7Engine subforums and you'll see what i mean.
Posted By: 3dworld

Re: Easy way to make soft shadows - 09/23/08 18:14

Well, I hope in the future conitec help us, but for now maybe do you know someone script easy to manipulate that could help me with my problem. I would appreciate any help possible.
Thanks again.
Posted By: bomber

Re: Easy way to make soft shadows - 09/29/08 09:45


Look in aum 51, it has sof shadows but it's c-script
Posted By: 3dworld

Re: Easy way to make soft shadows - 09/29/08 16:46

Thanks I'll check it..
Posted By: nightshade

Re: Easy way to make soft shadows - 09/30/08 11:20

This shader just blurrs the Z-Buffer-Shadow. It doesn't look as good as conitecs shader so you can use their at once.
Posted By: 3dworld

Re: Easy way to make soft shadows - 09/30/08 14:16

Well what do you recommended? confused
Posted By: bomber

Re: Easy way to make soft shadows - 09/30/08 14:35

Originally Posted By: nightshade
This shader just blurrs the Z-Buffer-Shadow. It doesn't look as good as conitecs shader so you can use their at once.


well thats better than nothing
Posted By: lostclimate

Re: Easy way to make soft shadows - 09/30/08 18:41

Originally Posted By: nightshade
This shader just blurrs the Z-Buffer-Shadow. It doesn't look as good as conitecs shader so you can use their at once.


actaully it doesnt even do that, it makes a seperate flattened model of its own (not the built in zbuffer shadows) multiple times and scales them with different alpha values, which is very slow. So to be honest its not even better than nothing unless you dont mind taking a fps hit like that.
Posted By: Nowherebrain

Re: Easy way to make soft shadows - 10/02/08 16:22

stencil can be much slower than a render pass. It also sucks...lol
Posted By: 3dworld

Re: Easy way to make soft shadows - 10/14/08 20:40

Well, but actually.Anyone know a way to make this possible without so many complications.
Thanks again.
Posted By: lostclimate

Re: Easy way to make soft shadows - 10/14/08 21:51

no.
Posted By: Foxfire

Re: Easy way to make soft shadows - 10/26/08 23:41

Any rendering problem is complicated; specifically shadows. Check out my projective shadow mapper if you know how to set up views. If your just learning graphics programming, you should check out some tutorials online. Unfortunatley this problem requires some expertise and can be very frustrating to understand without a general background knowledge in matrices and transformations.
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