Tutorial - Rendering A Shadow Map

[wheels1758]

Means your shadows.pgm is not the same size as your terrain.png...I think

[Phathry25]

ffs it was one pixel off, and I just verified visually....

That said the shadows still didn't line up properly.

[Phathry25]

Figured it out.

[BuddyTheElf]

Can anyone help me with this? I removed the billboard files before exporting the track.pov and I've changed all the missing textures for the objects to the dummy.png but when I go to "run" it highlights the bit in yellow and I dont know what to do about that.

I've rendered shadows for a track before but it was ages ago and I dont remember getting an error like this.

[DJ99X]

Make sure you have this in the shadows.pov file

#macro hidden()
cylinder {
<0.0, 0.0, 0.0>, <0.0, 5.0, 0.0>, 0.75
no_shadow
}
#end

#macro _30sec_30()
hidden()
#end

[BuddyTheElf]

Sorry to be a complete moron but where exactly do I put that?

[BuddyTheElf]

Sorry I mis-read your comment. That appears to already be in the shadow.pov

[DJ99X]

Hmmm. You're not running the track.pov file instead of the shadow.pov file are you?

[DJ99X]

Yep, that's what you're doing

[BuddyTheElf]

Ok so I closed the track.pov and ran the shadow.pov and the yellow error bar moves down to the bit on the picture where it says _triplight_green()

[DJ99X]

That's not defined in the shadows.pov file. Just remove both billboards and flaggers from your track and export track.pov again

[BuddyTheElf]

Thanks Dj, that did the trick

[Mx-Team947]

Hm.. Why i have a bad quality ?
Heelp Pliiz

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/4845/shadowhd.png

[yzmxer608]

You did it correctly, that's just how it looks, the rendered shadows are 100% black and no shadows are 100% white. If you put it in game it will look fine .

[Mx-Team947]

So , It's normal ?

http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/1669 ... ot216c.png