I want to have shadows on my terrain -- how?

[ArthurVKuhrmeier]

Hello ladies, hi guys,

I enjoy the new terrain massively. There's just one thing that bothers me: The terrain shows no shadow!!! That's look pretty silly if you have a prop that drops a shadow half on the grid and half it disappears.

Now, I figured out that the movie.mscope file has an entry for the terrain:

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            <flags>
              <string>TEXGEN</string>
              <string>DONT_CAST_SHADOWS</string>
              <string>DONT_SHOW_SHADOWS</string>
            </flags>

Great, I thought. I simply removed the two "SHADOW"-lines. But after reloading the movie, Moviestorm "repaired" the do-not-bother-me-with-shadows-lines.

Has anyone tried to enable the shadows on the terrain successfully? Is there a hack or work-around to do so?

Thanks, Arthur

[lucindamc123]

Well I hide the Moviestorm terrain and make my own and then make sure they show shadows and that works fine. I usually make flat terrains with photographs, aerial ones, if I can find them. So they are not too hi poly that way.

[Ben_S]

I am not aware of a way to make it show shadows. As I understand it, it uses very different shaders to the rest of Moviestorm, and they may be written in a way that doesn't account for shadows.

[ArthurVKuhrmeier]

Thanks Lucinda,

I know you do but the terrain editor is really cool and offers great features I'd love to use - and I don't have to make an addon.


Thanks to you too, Ben,

I was wondering if there is a chance (a hack) preventing Moviestorm from "repairing" these two SHADOW-lines. That way I could at least try and see if the terrain showed any shadows. I checked all the files, but couldn't find anything. So I guess it's within the Moviestorm code.

I really, really want to figure this out because if we succeed we could build terrific sets with the terrain editor.

Thanks :-)