Forgon uploaded file revert_shadow_drawing.patch (1.4 KiB)

patch file created with git format-patch

Forgon uploaded file shadow_drawing_old.png (87.9 KiB)

HQ antennas drawn with shadows enabled and commit e7cb9372b2b8dfaa8736aee48aa5180c94db206d

Forgon uploaded file shadow_drawing_new.png (88.2 KiB)

HQ antennas drawn with shadows enabled and without commit e7cb9372b2b8dfaa8736aee48aa5180c94db206d

Berserk Cyborg commented

I was under the impression that these are modeling issues (#4093). Scavenger units are messed up even with shadows off because a massive black square hangs under them at all times, and sometimes changes, just as moving the camera around the HQ antennas makes some of them look less choppy (or completely disappear). Not to mention the broken animations for them.

Said patch of mine was only to make shadows appear on objects, more realistic if you will, rather than be a mysterious darkened area next to objects (the now opaque base plates will be drawn over the shadows (among other things), again, if reverted as shown in that image above).

Why do these two objects create shadows in the first place, where as trees do not?

pastdue commented

I concur with Beserk Cyborg on this - I do not believe that reverting the ordering is the best approach to fixing the HQ antenna alpha issues.

Berg commented

the shadows are of total polygon and not the part that is visible so by reducing the polygon size to match closer what the object shape is the shadow will better conform to the object.

Berg uploaded file hq.png (392.4 KiB)

shadow shape only and simple polygone shadow

Berg uploaded file hq.2.png (329.0 KiB)

from 16 polygon per aireal to 40

Berg commented

a quick modify of aireals less polygons than first attempt but still heaps more

Berg uploaded file blhq.pie (50.7 KiB)

HQ pie file