Hi All,

I am new to Away3D and this forum. I just started learning today away3D.

Actually I created a sphere and plane using premitive objects and added directional light.

For materials I added sahdow method and enabled castsShadows to true for mesh objects.

But still shadows not displaying, I am using latest version of Away3D swc.

Hope will get help…

Please check following code:
package {

import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.Event;
import away3d.entities.*;
import away3d.containers.View3D;
import away3d.primitives.*;
import away3d.utils.*;

import flash.display.*;
import flash.geom.Vector3D;
import away3d.tools.helpers.data.MeshDebug;
import flash.display3D.*;
import away3d.materials.TextureMaterial;
import away3d.lights.DirectionalLight;
import away3d.lights.shadowmaps.*;
import away3d.materials.lightpickers.StaticLightPicker;
import away3d.materials.methods.NearShadowMapMethod;
import away3d.materials.methods.FilteredShadowMapMethod;

[SWF(backgroundColor=”#000000”, frameRate=“60”, quality=“LOW”)]
public class try_2 extends MovieClip {
  [Embed(source=“assets/Brkrun.jpg”)]
  private var xBrick : Class;
 
  [Embed(source=“assets/CONCRETE.jpg”)]
  private var xConc : Class;
 
  private var view : View3D;
  private var plane : Mesh;
 
  private var ball : Mesh;
 
  var sunLight : DirectionalLight;
  var oLightPicker : StaticLightPicker;
  public function try_2() {
  // constructor code
  addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, fAdded);
 
  stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
  stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
  }
 
  private function fAdded(event:Event){
  view = new View3D();
  addChild(view);
 
  view.camera.z = -600;
  view.camera.y = 500;
  view.camera.lookAt(new Vector3D());
 
  sunLight = new DirectionalLight();
  sunLight.color = 0xAAAAA9;
  sunLight.ambientColor = 0xAAAAA9;
        sunLight.ambient = 0.4;
        sunLight.diffuse = 1;
        sunLight.specular = 1;
  sunLight.z = 0;
  sunLight.y = 500;
  sunLight.lookAt(new Vector3D());
        sunLight.castsShadows = true;
        sunLight.shadowMapper = new NearDirectionalShadowMapper(.1);
        view.scene.addChild(sunLight);
 
  oLightPicker = new StaticLightPicker([sunLight]);
 
  //crete global shadow method
        var _shadowMethod:FilteredShadowMapMethod = new FilteredShadowMapMethod(sunLight);
        //_shadowMethod.epsilon = .0007;
 
  var planeMaterial : TextureMaterial = new TextureMaterial(Cast.bitmapTexture(xBrick));
  planeMaterial.lightPicker = oLightPicker;
  planeMaterial.shadowMethod = _shadowMethod;
  plane = new Mesh(new PlaneGeometry(500, 500, 10, 10), planeMaterial);
  plane.castsShadows = true;
  view.scene.addChild(plane);
 
  var ballMaterial : TextureMaterial = new TextureMaterial(Cast.bitmapTexture(xConc));
  ballMaterial.lightPicker = oLightPicker;
  ballMaterial.shadowMethod = _shadowMethod;
  ball = new Mesh(new SphereGeometry(50), ballMaterial);
  ball.y += 60;
  ball.castsShadows = true;
  view.scene.addChild(ball);
 
  addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, fAppLoop);
  }
 
  private function fAppLoop(event:Event):void{
  plane.rotationY +=1;
  //view.camera.rotationY += 1;
  //view.camera.lookAt(new Vector3D());
  view.render();
  }
}

}

delete this line

sunLight.shadowMapper = new NearDirectionalShadowMapper(.1);

or
set the value bigger than 0.1

Thank you very much Limouse-Lee, it’s working good…