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Posted by CuC on Sun Nov 14th at 7:53pm 2004

I'm quite a way into making my map, but when I run the game there are no player shadows being generated. I have a light_environment and a few spot lights around the level, am I missing something else to generate shadows ?



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Posted by Crono on Sun Nov 14th at 8:08pm 2004

Maybe you have that option turned off in the game menu for CSS ... [addsig]



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Posted by glenc on Mon Nov 15th at 6:15am 2004

This is a long shot but any chance your light_environment is set to point straight down?

Check the pitch property and set it to something like -70. -90 is straight down so maybe that's what's happening.





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Posted by RiffZifnab on Mon Nov 15th at 4:56pm 2004

Is your map fullbright? You might have a leak so its not doing any lighting, check your compile log or when you start up the map it should say its rendering in fullbright mode when the level loads.



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Posted by CuC on Mon Nov 15th at 5:05pm 2004

I have the angle of the light_environment set to -50 and there are no leaks in the map, as it has a full cubed Skybox around the outside (Not the ideal way, but helps prevent leaks)

I can't seem to think what else it could be





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Posted by glenc on Mon Nov 15th at 11:08pm 2004

I assume you're running the RAD process when you compile?




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Posted by ReNo on Tue Nov 16th at 12:53am 2004

Do you have full shadows on in your CS:S options? Crono mentioned this already but incase you overlooked it (as you haven't mentioned it) I thought I'd reiterate the point.
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Posted by omegaslayer on Tue Nov 16th at 2:36am 2004

Kinda dumb at what im going to say, but are shadows turned on in the console? I think its something like r_shadows 1 or something like that. CSS has been known to change the properties on its own sometimes.....

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Posted by Spartan on Thu Nov 18th at 11:14am 2004

The owner of this thread needs to give a f**king reply.





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Posted by Leperous on Thu Nov 18th at 11:16am 2004

Player shadows?! One thing I've noticed running around in game is that everything else casts a shadow, but I don't...



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Posted by Neural Scan on Thu Nov 18th at 1:44pm 2004

The players themselves wont see their own shadow, I don't think, unless you go into thirdperson, then you'll see your shadow. It's the same as in Doom3, I dunno why it's like that...



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Thu Nov 18th at 4:29pm 2004

? quote:
The players themselves wont see their own shadow, I don't think, unless you go into thirdperson, then you'll see your shadow. It's the same as in Doom3, I dunno why it's like that...


To put it bluntly, it probably looks a bit stuipd as the first person camera is located in the chest area rather than the eyes.




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Posted by CuC on Sun Nov 21st at 2:16am 2004

I swear on one of the CS:S maps I can see my own shadow. I must have been mistaken. That was what I was originally stating. I can see other player shadows.

Consider this post closed





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Posted by Gorbachev on Sun Nov 21st at 4:32am 2004

Yes, you can see your own shadow. I see mine all the time on de_dust if I lean against a ledge or certain walls...so it does exist.
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