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i need help on primitives casting shadows. Software: Away3D 4.x

Annita, Newbie Posted: 16 March 2012 04:46 PM Total Posts: 3 Hello, I am very new at this, I’m not a programmer so, please, be nice to me. I’ve been stealing code from the forums, >.< and now I can finally render some primitives, but there is no shadow.. I have one cube acting as ground and a few primitives. but the primitives don’t cast any shadow to the cube (ground) Can anyone give me the code for shadow casting; This is what I have: private function initLights():void { //create a light for the camera pointLight = new PointLight(); pointLight.y+=500; scene.addChild(pointLight); trace("coord Luz x="+pointLight.x+ " y="+pointLight.y+" z="+pointLight.z); lightPicker = new StaticLightPicker([pointLight]); var sunPointLight:PointLight = new PointLight(); sunPointLight.specular = 0; scene.addChild(sunPointLight); } Thanks a lot in advance.
Matse, Sr. Member Posted: 16 March 2012 05:20 PM Total Posts: 149 [ # 1 ] Hi Annita, First you need a DirectionalLight, as PointLight doesn’t cast shadows, and set its .castsShadows property to true (the default value might be “true” already, not sure anymore). Then you need to add a ShadowMethod to all materials on which you want shadows to appear : `var directionalLight:DirectionalLight = new DirectionalLight(); directionalLight.castsShadows = true var shadowMethod:FilteredShadowMapMethod = new FilteredShadowMapMethod(directionalLight); material.shadowMethod = shadowMethod` That should be it, there are several types of shadowMethod, you might want to try the others.
Annita, Newbie Posted: 16 March 2012 06:03 PM Total Posts: 3 [ # 2 ] Thank you very much. It’s working.
NemoStein, Newbie Posted: 15 November 2012 05:44 AM Total Posts: 4 [ # 3 ] @Matse, they do, in fact (ATM at least). Just be sure to set radius and fallOff correctly and use the HardShadowMapMethod. `var light:PointLight = new PointLight(); light.castsShadows = true; light.radius = 500; light.fallOff = 750; light.y = 500; material.shadowMethod = new HardShadowMapMethod(light);` note: I’m only answer this 8 months after because Google led me here and I was looking for the same thing that @Annita.

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