Hi, I just recently bought gsA6 pro and am eperimenting with terrains. I have learned that terrains cast nice shadows when lit by a dynamic light, BUT... If the terrain is lit at all by a static light (placed with WED) the light will illuminate the ENTIRE terrain and the terrain will not have any shadows or radiance whatsoever. I've tryed playing around with sun angles, ambiance, albedo, ect, and cannot figure this out. If it's not possible, then I want half off the origanal price for an upgrade to the future A7 or whatever future version that will do this lol!!

Only blocks are affected by static lights. For other types of entities (sprites, terrains, models, etc.), you'd need dynamic lights to light them. Shadows also affect it (yes, entities can cast shadows on each other).

You can have shadows on terrain. A simple way is a material with a very low diffuse and ambient value.

The most powerful way is the shader that you can find in the template folder. This shader can paint several layers of tileable textures and one layer of shadows over each other. With this you can paint your shadows or you can bake the shadow in an external software (like FreeWorld3d). So every tree could cast a shadow. But this would be a static solution.

In a previous version (A4 or A5 I think standard edition) the static lights DID make moving entities have shadows, I just don't understand why it wont with A6.

Only sunlight makes dynamic shadows on blocks models or terrain. Static light cannot do it. It can only color textures and change colors of models standing on blocks with a certain lightmap.

This is a baked shadow onto the terrainbitmap:
(but it is static and can not change to different sunpositions)




With the multitexturing shader in the templates, you can
also mix this with different textures in the terrain.

There is currently no option in Wed to bake shadows onto a terrain.

I used to have A5 standard and static lights used to be able to create a gouraud on models, now, A6 does'nt... that totaly sucks! lol

So you are no really talking about shadows, but albedo on terrains:

A5 standard did not have Terrains,

and Models are still affected by albedo and the brightness of
the underlying BSP Block.
For a finer look, read the manual about the materials.

What I was talking about is the gouraud on models and terrains. If I use the sunlight or static lights in A6, it iluminates the entire model or terrain like a cartoon with no gouraud. It lites the entire thing up evenly on all sides, even the sides that are'nt facing the light source.