Own shadow on body

[[aps]gnat 28]

This old chestnut, still kicking my butt

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?66796-Self-Shadow-cutting-in-out

Have a vehicle model that I just can't get the Shadow LOD(s) to cast a shadow on itself / on its own skin.

properties lodnoshadow = 1 & class = vehicle in all LODs

Super shaders in place

Shadow lod casts perfect shadow on the ground

Sharp edges and Triangulated

Shadow lod I've simplified just to see it happen, but it wont.

Seems to be the same as other vehicles that have no issues.

Thoughts on why its resisting?

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*sigh* its always the last thing you try after spend hours and hours trying to fix, and you make a post .....

Seems fixed just by making sure I have a _CO file extension to the PAA !

[[aps]gnat 28]

Nope !

Wasn't that simple :(

Added a few more bits, now I've lost the self shadow .........

Any ideas?

[max power 21]

Gnat;2243538']properties lodnoshadow = 1 & class = vehicle in all LODs

It would probably be best not to have lodnoshadow = 1 in the shadow LODs. I'm not saying you do, but it reads like you may.

Also, I'm not sure exactly what class = vehicle does. If you don't either, I would remove it and see if something changes.

I'm not sure if this is related, but I think a good avenue of investigation might be seeing what sections you've declared in your model.cfg.

[[aps]gnat 28]

ARG! Found the problem ...... I was sort of close with the first answer.

Turns out the PAA file format is the problem (not my model or converted textures) !!

Took the PAA, saved as TGA, then converted back to a PAA with the default TexView2 settings ....... now I get shadow on itself.

Thanks for the suggestions Max

[max power 21]

Glad you got it working!