Animating shadows

[boing]

I am trying to create something like "attacking shadows" The famous Nosferatu sceene is probably the closest to what i want to achieve http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCUW4SwmfGc
Any thoughts how to create something like this? I was thinking about an invisible model casting shadows. Is that even possible?

[LordDz]

env_projectedtexture.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xxC3NW8WFA&feature=channel_video_title[/youtube]

That's one video that does somewhat similar stuff that you want, it's in the map pimpage thread.

But there is another movie on youtube, which also is in a thread somewhere here which did a animated movie.. Hmm..

[boing]

Yeah i though about this too, but dont i need a visible model for it to work? The shadows should show up without a visible object casting them...

[Gary]

You can make a model invisible but still cast shadows, I am away from the computer so I can't say how at the moment.

[DA_iM]

maybe you can hold the model which is casting the shadows out of the players view? so when the player reaches a defined point near the model, it can run away or be killed!?
mh, but then the shadows are gone too....=/

[Gary]

I'll figure it out when I get home.

[nub]

I know for a fact you can have an invisible model cast shadows. I played a minigame map in CSS called Invisible Man and you could cheat by turning your flashlight on to cast a shadow of the invisible player if they were directly in front of you.

So an env_projectedtexture would definitely be needed.

[dark0r]

The best way to do this would to make an entity for this. Override ShouldDraw with:
return BaseClass::ShouldDraw() && CurrentViewID() != VIEWID_MAIN;

This will make the model invisible, but the shadow visible.

[boing]

The best way to do this would to make an entity for this. Override ShouldDraw with:
return BaseClass::ShouldDraw() && CurrentViewID() != VIEWID_MAIN;

This will make the model invisible, but the shadow visible.

hmm.. my coder is offline and i have no idea what youre talking about ill ask him asap


curious about garys solution

[cz_squishy]

I've done this before with some I/O, i'll see if I can find it

Found it. Set Render Mode to Don't Render

[Smurftyours]

Your all over complicating this. Turn smart edit off on the model, and add a new value "rendermode" and a value of 10 (I think that is the don't render value) and success. I have done this many times, unfortunately I don't have SDK installed and plan onto moving into UDK on my new computer.

[Gary]

curious about garys solution

Forget about it, I can't get it to work right now.

Also, beware if this is a major gameplay mechanic... those with old hardware or "shadows" set to anything but "high" will not see shadows from the env_projectedtexture/flashlight.

[cz_squishy]

Your all over complicating this. Turn smart edit off on the model, and add a new value "rendermode" and a value of 10 (I think that is the don't render value) and success. I have done this many times, unfortunately I don't have SDK installed and plan onto moving into UDK on my new computer.

Same thing as mine

[Smurftyours]

Ah, but it works on stuff that doesn't originally have that option.

[boing]

Also, beware if this is a major gameplay mechanic... those with old hardware or "shadows" set to anything but "high" will not see shadows from the env_projectedtexture/flashlight.

damn, forgot about it.... cant i force the use of env_projectedtexture even on older machines? or is there another way to have dynamic shadows or at lease fake them properly?