Hi, I want to make a proper shadow from a door which is model..
I can't even describe the problem, so take a look at the picture:

How do I fix this? Any ideas are welcome! Thank you.

What exactly is the problem? the wall around the doorway is a block, right?
if you want to scale the shadow you can scale down the texture on the floor. Try 0.100 to see better results.

Nahh.. you didn't get it mate. Problem is that there is no static shadows from models, so the door way has no shadow, that looks weird, I want to fix that, there is no problems with texture scale and so on.

I didn't get any answers till last year, so could I have an idea how to fiw this problem this year?

how about creating a sprite/decal shadow that you make dissappear when the door opens, this problem is a typical problem with static lightmapping and what happens if you let the door model cast a dynamic shadow ?

you could also put an invisible block there to cast a shadow, however, it'll still be there when the door opens but less noticeable i guess, but you could also create a light sprite/decal to show when door opens

typically, these types of games normally avoid putting doors in areas that would create such lighting.. maybe you could alter your level/light placement a bit ?

I think the best way will be using shadowmapping (as in shade-c), and to reject using lightning system of GS, it's horrible.
Dark, do you know how to make dynamic lightning in shade-c darker? I can't get it to work.

Hmm, does the door 'swing' open or retract up or to a side?

If its a retractor-diir, make a decal/sprite on the floor that looks like a shadow.
Then as the door retracts, contract the shadow's scale_x to scale_y by a matching amount.

EG: then the door is 50% closed, the shadow sprite is at scale_x=0.5
Get what I mean?


If its a swing-door, I dont have any ideas at this point.

It's a swing door mate..

Hmmm. Still, the the same idea MAY apply.

The 'bright' area is from the baked light-map right? It looks like it...
See how the bright area is roughly rectangle-shaped.
So the 'width' is the door is the narrow dimension of that area.

What we need is a shadow-sprite to cover the light area.
Now when the door is shut, the shadow needs to cover the whole bright-zone.
But as the door opens, we need to shrink the scale of the shadow in the
narrow dimension of the shadow, so the bright-area gets slowly exposed.
You will also need to shift the shadow sideways toward the hinges-side of the door,
so that the bright area only only gets exposed on the non-hinge side of the door.

Unfortunately I cant do pictures at the moment, otherwise I would do a diagram...

I hope this explains my idea...

Thank you man for your time, but I think, I'll leave this as it is atm. As I see, there is no easy way to fix this, I better concentrate on gameplay and other important stuff, may be at the end, there will come public beta of new shade-c, so I'll simply reject external lightning system of GS and will use shade-c. Thank you all for ideas.