shadow

Type:

Remarks:

• Using a simple model - such as a box - for stencil shadows can remarkably increase the frame rate, but can also cause visible stencil errors when the shadow model is very different to the real model. Z-Fail mode prevents such stencil errors in most cases.
• When a sprite is assigned, the entity casts a decal shadow even if shadow_stencil is activated for the rest of the entities.
• Decal shadows do not yet rotate with the entity, so they should be symmetric. This restriction will be overcome in a future update.
• When this pointer is unassigned, stencil shadows use the entity mesh itself from a lower LOD step (shadow_lod), and decal shadows are diffuse dark spots of the size of the entity.

Edition:

Example (lite-C):

ENTITY* ent_carshadow = { type = "car_shadow.tga"; }

action race_car()
{
  ...
  set(my,SHADOW);
  my.shadow = ent_carshadow; // car-shaped shadow sprite
  ...

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