Shadow fading

dixieswing · September 29, 2011, 6:21pm

Hi everyone. Maybe anyone knows how to make so: when the object which make a shadow on another object leaves for second object, 1st object shouldn’t
make shadow. But it makes… How to make so that it didn’t make a shadow?

dixieswing · October 3, 2011, 3:10pm

No idea?.. no text …

io · October 3, 2011, 3:16pm

Hi
can you try it to reformulate the question please, i really can t understand what you are trying to do. Maybe a patch if any could help.
S.

dixieswing · October 5, 2011, 10:35am

So, here is a patch. When yellow cube goes into magenta cube, It shouldn’t drop shadow on magenta cube.

myCubes.v4p (40.8 kB)

io · October 5, 2011, 2:16pm

Hi
GouradProjectedTexture effect is missing

dixieswing · October 5, 2011, 5:01pm

Oh, sorry! Here it is

Mycubes.zip (8.7 kB)

io · October 6, 2011, 1:05am

Hi
I opened your patch but when the yellow cube goes into the magenta cube, I don t see any shadow cast.
S.https://vvvv.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/large/images/cubes.PNG

dixieswing · October 6, 2011, 9:07pm

sorry, now i checked the patch

Mycubes.zip (14.0 kB)

io · October 7, 2011, 3:43am

Hi
now I see, first question: why are you doing shadows this way?

try to set the far plane of lookatrect to around 0 and a near plane to about -0.40

have you tried softshadow?