Tutorial - Rendering A Shadow Map

[mace-x]

Did you use my modified shadow.pov file?

yes, i did it, might be because the amount of trees, they where like 2000.

[DJ99X]

So is this for that supermoto track? They were billboard trees right? You need to convert the billboards to statues using that 2 plane model I uploaded.

I don't know how you are running out of memory with the .pov file I uploaded. It doesn't use the .inc files.

[mace-x]

i´ve converted all the billboards to planes with the 2planetree40.

[yzmxer608]

Mine keeps turning out pure black .

[DJ99X]

I think I had that problem once. Had no idea what caused the problem though

[yzmxer608]

Faaaaantastic. I don't have that many objects, I might just do decals for the trees and call it good.

[yzmxer608]

Trying to do this again and it keeps turning out pure black. It's a total different track and files, it renders fine, it just turns out pure black with nothing else .

[jlv]

I seem to remember Povray giving me trouble with 16 bit pngs at some point. Does it still render black if you replace terrain.png with an 8 bit black image?

[yzmxer608]

That didn't work. I also tried converting the normal terrain to 8-bit also. I didn't notice this before, but there is a 1 pixel row and column of white though (upper row and column furthest to the left).

It's weird, I've done it before, not sure where the problem is.

[wheels1758]

That didn't work. I also tried converting the normal terrain to 8-bit also. I didn't notice this before, but there is a 1 pixel row and column of white though (upper row and column furthest to the left).

It's weird, I've done it before, not sure where the problem is.

try negating the y value of your sun vector (in the shadows.pov file). I had this problem once and it seemed like it was because POVray was confused because it thought my sun vector was pointing up rather than down

[AirFlexoxo]

Where my track.pov after saving? Dont show up in my trackfolder...

[72Motox72]

Hey guys im really confused at what you do here:

// PUT SUN CO-ORDINATE IN THE ARROW BRACKETS

// SCALE x (RESOLUTION - 1) = LENGTH & WIDTH ---> EG. 1.6 x (1025-1) = 1638.4

Could Someone help please.

[72Motox72]

Dont worrie i got it.

[72Motox72]

Umm I need some help here.
when i put shadows.pgm into my tack folder and start to open my track in game it comes up with this.



Does anyone know what i need to do to fix this ?.

P.S Sorry for all the posts.

[DJ99X]

Does it just sit there like that? Are there any other messages that come up?