In the game original maps, like in Valley or Sewer, I can see nice “shadow maps” for trees.
How can I make that?
I can make projected lights but I can’t make projected shadows!
If I use a light entity,the only way to make some shadow is to overbright the space between the dark places,and it looks weird…
How to fake soft shadows?
BackSnip3
(BackSnip3)
#1
iwound
(iwound)
#2
its just a light with a texture.
ive done this with a black image of a tree distorted.
there are tree light textures in the sdk lights folder.
but if your outside your better off baking this into the megatexture as a stamp as it’s cheaper than a light.
but a light option can be animated. but i cant remember exactly how.
look in the blendlights.mtr in base/blendlights also, not sure how these work though.
iwound
(iwound)
#4
Let us know how you get on with these. As i said these don’t show up in editer. Although a normal light and texture combo will. But these are the enties used in valley for example.
not easy to setup if you can’t see them.
BackSnip3
(BackSnip3)
#5
This is simple as hell to setup, I just needed to change the light material et voila!
This is how it looks:
In the editor:
In-game:
iwound
(iwound)
#6
Ah! now it works for me. Great. will use these.
Messing around with a lot of animated textures atm to fake movement.
BackSnip3
(BackSnip3)
#7
It’s a really nice feature to make some living vegetation 
Now we can all make jungle maps or nice forests in our maps 
I think if you use the same thing and remove the movement template you can really make “shadow maps” for details like fences or stuff like that You just need new textures
I also use moveables in my maps but I can’t get them working to be breakable.There must be some missing code to spawn debris or just to kill the entitys… :S It’s a sad thing, would have been even funnier with breakable objects.