if it has an action, make a material in the code and put in the action "my.material = theMaterialVonmanMade;"

or you can go to MED and edit its material properties there. search through the manual for "materials". also, i think some variable has to be set to make the sun be treated as a dynamic light.

julz

Here is a little Modelviewer,
just insert your terrain into it at the position
string das_model=<marine_cosh.mdl>;

You might just scale it in cas it is to big.

This way you can test how the material settings affect the terrain.

http://www.coniserver.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/684932/an/0/page/0#Post684932

If you want shadows on terrain just set an entity to have a stencil shadow. Then a dynamic shadow will be displayed on a terrain.

I'm not an expert, but did you export your terrain from MED? If so did you alter the ambience? I did the same this and my entire terrain is too lit up and looks cartoony, until I realised that you can adjust how much the light affects the terrain in MED (A6 as far as I know). Now my terrain has low ambience and is only lit based on the intensity and distance of lights (dynamic or static) and sunlight. I hope this helps.

No, I just made the terrain, added a skin and saved it. I did'nt know that changing the ambiance in MED would make a difference, i'll try that!!! :-D THX!

WOW! It DID work! Thanks for the Tip! My project is gonna have some MEAN graphics when i'm done with it :-D

It's my first day in this forum and I love to stick my nose in everything that has not yet been responded to, if I think that I may have a solution of course, because I had the same problem, but I'm sure you would have figured it out eventually as I did. I'm just a newbie, but I'm glad I could help.

hi, i am cureently trying to get the wiki example
http://www.coniserver.net/wiki/index.php/Terrain_Shadowmapping
to work, but i have no success. i simply get a plain grey map. i'd be grateful if someone could post an example/a step-by-strep guide. thanks in advance.

ahm, damocles: i need exactly what you have, a shadow baker for all objects... any chance you could share it?

DaBro0zar, you might want to check out the shadow map creation utility I uploaded at Acknex resource site Here, sounds like it might be what you need.

Well, I have not yet tried this, but how about you choose the angle of your sunlight over the terrain you created and leave the terrain a flat grey or white. Then switch the camera view from above and export the shadow.

It's just a thought...