Tree shadows without glitch

[robomanus]

Hi all. If u have already noticed:
the shadow of vanilla's palm is corrupt.
Here for u all the same one corrected by me:.
As u can see all the shadows now are correctly represented.
Just download this zip archive containig two corrected palm_a.cas and palm_b.cas files and and replace them with vanilla one's situated in data\terrain\aerial_map\tree_models

[Squid]

Nice, I've also moved this to the tutorial section as a resource for modders.

[robomanus]

OK

[robomanus]

there are also other shadow bugs with trees. I will post new ones as soon as I can

[Gigantus]

Nice tidbit - I like attention to detail.

[robomanus]

[robomanus]

So guys as I sad before here for all of you other shadow bug fixes:

Vanilla deciduous_a

Fixed deciduous_a

Vanilla deciduous_a_winter

Fixed deciduous_a_winter

Here are 2 fixed cas files

[brandybarrel]

Well spotted!

Tested, and the corrections are working well.

Thanks...

[robomanus]

[Gigantus]

There is a bug with the deciduous_a_winter CAS file (summer model is OK). I am getting a graphic glitch, see pic - top is new model, bottom is default.
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[brandybarrel]

So far, I don't seem to be getting the glitch.

Winter deciduous trees appear the same as those in robomanus' pics.

I'm using vanilla textures by the way.

[robomanus]

Gigantus infact I think it's because of your texture file. try to use vanilla one... if the glitch remains so just upload here your texture file and I'll apply it correctly...

[Gigantus]

I will try with the default texture

Edit: same result with the default texture, but it is caused due to our altered descr_strategic_lighting file. Once I use default values it is fine again. Possibly that one surface has a different value which makes the texture look fairly white (yellow in the glitch).

[robomanus]

so it's not a CAS bug....

[Gigantus]

Partially - the default texture gave the graphic glitch on your CAS (not on the original), but it was triggered by the changed entry in descr_strategic_lighting.

Your CAS plus original texture plus original lighting = no problem.

[robomanus]

ok

[SigniferOne]

This was a very quickly learned +rep, very good job.

[robomanus]

It's a pleasure for me to be useful

[makanyane]

do you know what was causing the shadow bug? I ask because I've got similar problem with some strat tree models I made myself and can't figure out what causes it. (have tried comparing your models with the originals in ms3d format and still can't work out what the original issue was)

[robomanus]

It's because some polygons of your new trees are too small or there are too many polygons at all so the game can't represent its shadow correctly. There are lots of other steps to do that can't be explained with words, it's a pretty hard work You know so if You still can't fix it upload it here and I'll try to help You