dark shadow

[cassius]

During game at some point a large rectangular shadow covers my terrain.

It looks like a cloud has obscured the sun. if I rotate the characterI can lose this shadow.

 

Anyone had this problem

 

[macklebee]

Yes I have seen this issue. It has something to do with the vegetation - specifically some of the tree materials/shaders being used/not used. Once I sorted the correct shaders for the material the dark shadow went away. I would suggest taking a look at the tree materials and confirm the right shaders are being used.

[cassius]

Ok thanks. I am using the pine tree some grass and bushes all supplied with engine . I have not altered shaders myself. I will take a look.

[macklebee]

Yes, some of the default materials that come with the nature pack also have this issue. I think it is caused by not having shadow shaders in the material but having 'Shadows' checked in the Vegetation properties panel.

 

The default pine-trunk.mat's shaders:

shader="Shaders/Model/diffuse+normal.shader"

shader3="Shaders/Vegetation/diffuse+normal.shader"

 

Resulting In-Game Scene:

 

Changed pine-trunk.mat's shaders to:

shader="Shaders/Model/diffuse+normal.shader"

shader1="Shaders/Model/Shadow/shadow.shader"

shader3="Shaders/Vegetation/diffuse+normal.shader"

shader4="Shaders/Vegetation/Shadow/shadow.shader"

 

Resulting In-Game Scene:

[cassius]

Wow! Thanks for going to so much trouble.Thats why its a great forum.

[Josh]

The nature pack is updated with the edited material now. You will need to uninstall and reinstall the DLC (Workshop > Subscribed Items).