Shadows

Sandrock

<div class="IPBDescription">In tourney mode</div> I noticed while playing in a scrim that while in tourney mode, all the units had proper shadows. I hadn't noticed this before in normal pub play, so I assume its only in tourney mode (or somewhere in the CAL config as thats what was used). Anyways, I went past a hive, and it had a shadow too, looked very awkard. Two pics for all, discuss.

Sandrock

And another....

Omega1

Weird. Never seen that before. Could be wrong, I am quite forgetful about subtle things <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->

Still, I think unit shadows would be cool, but a hive having a shadow...that's jsut a bit weird, especially with a few of the maps not even having them attached to walls, jsut rather close to them, and then theres the fact that anything around it map wise wouldn't have a shadow to go with it, or, at least not that defined as I saw in the images you posted.

Minstrel_Knight

Don't believe I've seen that in Half-Life before.

Rabid_Llama

<!--QuoteBegin--Minstrel Knight+Mar 12 2003, 03:42 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Minstrel Knight @ Mar 12 2003, 03:42 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Don't believe I've seen that in Half-Life before. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Me either -- I didn't know the engine could DO that?
Not to call you a liar, but do you have any further screenshots for proof?

Kenichi

there is a variable within hl to turn shadows on but as you can see they are pretty unrealistic and as such that variable is never really used.

Madjai

that shadow looks like its floating

Sandrock

<!--QuoteBegin--Madjai+Mar 11 2003, 11:09 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Madjai @ Mar 11 2003, 11:09 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> that shadow looks like its floating <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
It was... thats why it looked so bad. The shadow didn't even fall across the floor, it was just hovering in midair like that (as can be seen in the 2nd pic). <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->

Silver_Fox

r_shadows 1 used to be the command to turn it on

its disabled.

personaly, I loved it, thought it made it look a hell of a lot better.

it just creats the shadow strait from the bottom of the model, so its not going to be able to go down multiple levels

golden_eye

Is r_shadows a client-side or server-side command? I'd like to try them out to see what they are like.

Silver_Fox

its been disabled by a recent HL patch

but it used to be client side

FireStorm

r_shadows was disabled in HL because it was unrealistic (shadows that appear in mid air).

BUT

you can still use it in blue shift <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

Sandrock

<!--QuoteBegin--Silver Fox+Mar 12 2003, 12:25 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Silver Fox @ Mar 12 2003, 12:25 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> r_shadows 1 used to be the command to turn it on

its disabled.

personaly, I loved it, thought it made it look a hell of a lot better.

it just creats the shadow strait from the bottom of the model, so its not going to be able to go down multiple levels <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
For something like the hive, where the shadow floated in midair, it looked terrible. But when someone was walking along a flat surface, watching the realistic shadow of the fade, it just looked sweet. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->