ONLY THE SHADOW KNOWS ....

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Bill Kestell

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I was doing some work on my FDG donationware B-17's tonight and just noticed that my "B-17G_early" does NOT have any ground shadow. WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?

Thanks
 
Hi Bill,
I take it you have 'show shadows' turned on in your CFS2 graphics settings?

If you have it may be the way it was modelled, either with no shadow or shadow which does not show up with certain graphics cards/settings??

Cheers Shessi
 
A Shadow Confirmation

Hey Bill,
When I read this I had to check it out. :ques:

I'm getting the shadow effect. Nvidea set up.

Dave
 
Fibber ... only in their minds!

Guys ... here's a screenshot of an early "G" and a late "G" ... I don't get it? Does anyone else have this problem?

I also went back to my original FDG download and put "Chowhound" into the test bed ... still NO SHADOW!! Every other a/c does have one! I am confused:isadizzy:
 
ONLY THE SHADOW KNOWS....

......What evil lurks in the heart of mankind. ( Lamont Cranston knows!):icon_lol:
 
Dave,
The pic you posted, is that not an E or F B17, if I'm not mistaken? Bill is having a problem with an early G model, could you try that specific early B17G model and see if you get the prob? Sorry I can't as CFS2 is on packed away pc!

Fibber,
Anagram of Lamont Cranston, maybe??

Cheers Shessi
 
Boatz said:
Nope, Chow Hound's got no shadow, probably not a deal breaker though.:icon_lol:


Boatz
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Hi!

Not from my perspective either ... just wanted to know that I wasn't NUTZ!!!!! I can just change the names of the early "G"s so they show up on the late "G" models and go with that. To my way of seeing it ... it's just the Cheyenne tail turret that's different.

Maybe some of the guys at the old FDG will have a fix posted for it down the road.

Thanks!:salute:
 
Hi Fibber,
Thanks I enjoyed reading that! No, not a 'super hero' I think made it across. He's seems a mix, with names and story, between Batman and Superman......

Cheers Shessi

p.s. Bill, I'm glad you're not going mad and it's been confirmed, strange how the shadow's been left out?
 
Very strange, hadn't noticed before.

It means there is a dedicated 'shadow' LOD that is completely empty, if that LOD wasn't present (and it often isn't) the sim resorts to creating a shadow from the main LOD external model. It's good practice to create a shadow model from a simpler LOD (if it is a multi-LOD model) when building. Saves fps against using the main high detailed LOD at little noticeable cost. or nick a shadow model from the other variant.

It would be possible to SCASM edit one of the simpler LOD models into the empty shadow model. I'm not 100% about this, but not far from it.

Jamie

PS. I'm not volunteering, not at the moment anyways.

Jamie
 
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