Psuedo Brick Shadows

[Squideey]

At this point I'm sure it's impossible to make bricks cast real, dynamic, pixel per pixel shadows, but how about a pseudo shadow system?



If I put a brick over another brick, depending on the elevation and azimuth of the sun in the map,
wait.
A = 0
E = 45
Now a brick is placed 4 studs above a plate...
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Why are shadows impossible with the Torque engine? Why isn't there a pseudo shadow system that can work, even if the shadows are fake and blocky? Damn, I cannot explain anything, so I guess shadows in Blockland will never happen, and one  wall on the inside of my house will still be really bright, while the opposite wall is really dark.

Can't there just be a simple calculation that takes in the sun's elevation, azimuth, height of a brick above something else, and just cover the area between the brick and the plate with a dark "filter" to make it look like I shadow? Rough dynamic shadows are possible in Minecraft (a Java program), so why not Torque?



The shadows would look like this. Not perfect, aligning to the brick grid. I'm sure these kind of fake shadows could be possible in some way.

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[Daedalus]

:o
That would be awesome.

[Bushido]

i've wondered about this too, before i knew about minecraft: i guess i've never gotten around to posting it

actually, why HASN'T this been thought of before

[phflack]

this would be good, although it would have to fix everytime you delete or make a brick... checking every shadow, unless it's only the ones behind it that will be in it's range?

[Chrono]

Badspot never said it was impossible, nor have any of the moderators.

He simply said that it would be too much for even some decent computers to handle.
Just remember how many objects Blockland works with.

[Squideey]

Badspot never said it was impossible, nor have any of the moderators.

He simply said that it would be too much for even some decent computers to handle.
Just remember how many objects Blockland works with.

Well, Roblox has shadows. There can be some sort of system of grouping the objects with similar placement or something.

[Sebster 105]

Yeah, this is possible, but it would be the best rendered game ever and would put put all other 3D rendering engines to shame. Yeah, it's possible, but don't hold your breath.

Or something like that.