Difference between revisions of "Category:Shadows"

Latest revision as of 11:44, 8 December 2008

SSG Shadow Settings

SSG Shadow Settings2

Using SSG (ShowScenegraph) in the console mode brings up a Reference Window. Click on any item on the game screen and the Reference Window will display information about it.

NPC nifs have: "shader = ShadowLightShader" under NiTriShape / Attributes

This shader is found only on the player's model and all NPCs, and any clothing or armor they are wearing and is responsible for making those meshes cast dynamic shadows. It is not found on Static or moveable objects.

According to Forum information:

("The game engine only includes code to generate shadows for actors and trees. Dynamic shadows for other objects were removed early in development (you can find some videos of them online, though").

and:

("Supposedely the shadow system they had in place was far too slow so they decided to replace it with a more general shadow engine (with dynamic shadowing on characters however not on any structures or objects").

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-HOW DO WE GIVE SHADOWS TO STATIC OBJECTS, SUCH AS BUILDINGS??<br />
+[[Image:Shadow1.gif|thumb|right|SSG Shadow Settings]]
---[[User:Waerloga|Waerloga]]
+[[Image:Shadow2.gif|thumb|right|SSG Shadow Settings2]]
-:Can no one answer this?
-:--[[User:Waerloga|Waerloga]]
-::Uhh... why is this a category? Please don't make new categories unnecessarily, they confuse things somewhat. At any rate, in terms of dynamic shadows, I don't think we can. I think all shadows are done with ground texture painting or some such.
+Using SSG (ShowScenegraph) in the console mode brings up a Reference Window. Click on any item on the game screen and the Reference Window will display information about it.
-::But I could be wrong. Perhaps ask on the {{Forums}}?
+NPC nifs have: "shader = ShadowLightShader"
-::[[User:DragoonWraith|<span style="font-family: Oblivion, Daedric Runes; size=2;">D</span>ragoon <span style="font-family: Oblivion, Daedric Runes; size=2;">W</span>raith]] [[User_talk:DragoonWraith|<span style="font-family: Oblivion, Daedric Runes; size=2;">TALK</span>]] 11:55, 13 June 2008 (EDT)
+under NiTriShape / Attributes
-{{Request Tutorial}}
+This shader is found only on the player's model and all NPCs, and any clothing or armor they are wearing and is responsible for making those meshes cast dynamic shadows. It is not found on Static or moveable objects.
-"Why is this a category?" Why are you asking, it obviously is. Don't refer people to the forums. The forums are useless for answering questions, in fact, Ive never had anyone answer any of my questions there, only here on the wiki, which, oddly enough, was designed for that very purpose, so don't even mention the forums as a source of information, they are not. Forums are filled with inane chatter and I don't have the time to trawl through pages of verbiage just to find an answer to one simple question. I asked questions there way back in 2006 and they still haven't been answered, so don't ever tell anyone to try the forums, it's counter-productive and a complete waste of everybody's time, the very opposite of good advice. What purpose do you believe the CS wiki serves? Why do you think it's here? Why would you refer a question to a forum? Why misdirect someone to the wrong place? It's like I ask where the library is and you send me to an asylum, wikis are for information retrieval, forums are for conversations, try not to get them mixed up in future. And NO, shadows are not "...done with ground texture painting or some such." So if you have nothing to contribute here then don't make things worse by leaving behind the wrong information.
-REMEMBER: The Question here is "How To Make Shadows", don't waste space here with anything else, this CATEGORY is for Shadow-Casting, surely someone who uses this wiki must know the answer.:--[[User:Waerloga|Waerloga]]
+According to Forum information:
+("The game engine only includes code to generate shadows for actors and trees. Dynamic shadows for other objects were removed early in development (you can find some videos of them online, though").
+and:
+("Supposedely the shadow system they had in place was far too slow so they decided to replace it with a more general shadow engine (with dynamic shadowing on characters however not on any structures or objects").

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