- Blender DTS Exporter 0.97 Documentation Index
- Installing the Exporter
- Overview of the DTS File Format
- Setting Up DTS Shapes in Blender
- User Interface Overview
- Tutorials
- DTS Meshes
- Billboard Meshes
- Collision Meshes
- LosCollision Meshes - Line of Sight Collision
- Vertex Index Limit
- Geometry Types
- Polygon Limit
- Face Normals
- Vertex Normals
- Blender Mesh Modifiers
- Double Sided Meshes
- Notes on Skinned Meshes
- Notes on Shadows
- Transparency and Drawing Order
- Determining the number of triangles in a Blender mesh
- Strategies for dealing with large meshes
- DTS Materials
- DTS Animations
- LOD - Levels of Detail
- Blender Survival Guide
- Changes from earlier versions
- Notes on Coordinate systems
- Notes on Scale
- Quick Export Feature
- Troubleshooting
- Exporter Credits
Notes on Shadows
Sun, 01/11/2009 - 17:04 — Joseph Greenawalt
There are two main types of shadows in the Torque Game Engine: Dynamic shadows, and static shadows.
Dynamic shadows
Shadows of some object classes in TGE are based on the visible mesh(es) of the object.
Torque Game Engine Classes that generate Dynamic shadows by default are:
- Player class (based on the visible mesh(es))
- Vehicle class (based on the visible mesh(es))
- Wheel class (based on the visible mesh(es))
- StaticShape class (this is not the same as 'tsstatic', see the static shadows section below) (based on the visible mesh(es))
- tsstatic with "polysoup" enabled (based on the visible mesh(es))
Notes:
- There is a dynamic shadow bug in versions of TGE prior to 1.5.1 which causes shadows for meshes composed of triangle list primitives not to be drawn. A fix for this bug can be found here for people who are using an older version of TGE.
Static Shadows
Shadows on tsstatic class objects are generated using the object's collision mesh in TGE. These shadows are baked into terrain or interior lightmap textures and will only show up after relighting the mission when new objects are placed.