Light lights through a wall if near range is beig enough

[Dreikblack]

You can see a light beside wall, but light source is before this wall.

It happens if near range is bigger than distance to obstacle.

In my game i'm using near range to prevents shadows of character that have this light source (flashlight). But in this case light goes through walls.

[Josh]

Why would it act differently than this? If the wall is closer than the near light range, it would not get drawn into the shadow map.

[Dreikblack]

7 hours ago, Josh said:

If the wall is closer than the near light range, it would not get drawn into the shadow map.

Thats what i want? I don't know how it should be, but it would be more intuitive, if light could not go beside obstacle.

[Josh]

You might want to try using the render layers feature to make the character not appear in the shadow. Changing the light's near range is a strange solution that will probably cause many other unexpected problems.

[Dreikblack]

5 minutes ago, Josh said:

You might want to try using the render layers feature to make the character not appear in the shadow

I need character shadow if another character shines a flashlight at him. And i need shadows in general from flashlight. It there a way to prevent shadow of specific model from specific light source?

[Josh]

15 minutes ago, Dreikblack said:

I need character shadow if another character shines a flashlight at him. And i need shadows in general from flashlight. It there a way to prevent shadow of specific model from specific light source?

If you are clever, the render layers system can do this.

[Dreikblack]

Not really. Everything that should has shadows and many light sources have 1 render layer and i'm not gonna change every object at every level