[#VWR-1601] Prims casting shadows

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Prims casting shadows

Created: 07/Jul/07 08:32 PM Updated: 22/Jul/09 08:08 AM

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This issue is original of duplicate:

~~VWR-11620~~ Lights (local and environment) pass through opaque surfaces, such as walls

~~VWR-3189~~ Windlight: Sun light shines on objects behind objects that should block the light.

~~VWR-3818~~ Shading/shadows and light leeking through prims

Relates

This issue Relates to:

~~VWR-9979~~ Deferred rendering pipeline does not work with ATI Radeon X1300

VWR-6975 Google Summer of Code: Screen-space Ambient Occlusion

This issue is related to by:

~~SVC-1307~~ PRIM_CAST_SHADOWS no longer a recognized paramater in Havok4

~~VWR-3366~~ Make indoor lighting more controllable

VWR-3224 Culling ambient lights

~~SVC-3266~~ Add Prim Shadows, that change position when the sun moves.

VWR-13201 Meta-Issue: Shadow-Draft bugs & improvements

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My experience with Windlight has been an overall positive one but it also made a graphics limitation very apparent. The level of realism was dramaticaly increased in terms of lighting, the sky, the water, the sun, but as soon as you hit land everything appeared out of place.
There were no shadows anywhere. You sat in a basement and the walls were orange as if you were standing outside.

I realise that SL is not about creating an "as real as possible" environment of the real world, but since bumpmapping and texture lights already change based on the position of the sun, why can't shadows be cast? I'm sure this would put an extra load on the viewer graphics but this would completely change the feel of SL.

Even more so if avatars had a shadow (rather than two little dark spots where their feet touch the ground).

Its just a suggestion, and in some ways I feel that the implementation of this would make for an even more stunning environment thank Windlight. Dungeons would still be dark even in full daylight, insides of buildings would be lit according to window placement with the shadow outline of a window on the wall/floor...

As a building designer I would love to see this implemented and see people taking light into account when creating buildings and other structures...

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Simon Nolan made changes - 15/Nov/07 06:54 PM

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Link		This issue is duplicated by ~~VWR-3189~~ [ ~~VWR-3189~~ ]

Simon Nolan made changes - 16/Nov/07 12:13 PM

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This issue is related to by VWR-3224 [ VWR-3224 ]

Torley Linden made changes - 03/Dec/07 12:42 PM

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This issue is related to by ~~VWR-3366~~ [ ~~VWR-3366~~ ]

Haravikk Mistral made changes - 21/Dec/07 09:13 AM

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This issue is duplicated by ~~VWR-3818~~ [ ~~VWR-3818~~ ]

Rob Linden made changes - 22/Dec/07 01:28 AM

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Harleen Gretzky made changes - 28/Jan/08 01:15 PM

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This issue is related to by ~~SVC-1307~~ [ ~~SVC-1307~~ ]

Aimee Trescothick made changes - 26/Jun/08 07:24 PM

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This issue Relates to VWR-6795 [ VWR-6795 ]

Aimee Trescothick made changes - 26/Jun/08 07:25 PM

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This issue Relates to VWR-6795 [ VWR-6795 ]

Aimee Trescothick made changes - 26/Jun/08 07:27 PM

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This issue Relates to VWR-6975 [ VWR-6975 ]

Gellan Glenelg made changes - 19/Oct/08 05:08 AM

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This issue is related to by ~~SVC-3266~~ [ ~~SVC-3266~~ ]

Sue Linden made changes - 13/Nov/08 11:00 AM

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Sue Linden made changes - 13/Nov/08 11:16 AM

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Sue Linden made changes - 13/Nov/08 04:30 PM

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Sue Linden made changes - 13/Nov/08 04:41 PM

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Sue Linden made changes - 13/Nov/08 04:53 PM

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Sue Linden made changes - 13/Nov/08 05:05 PM

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Sue Linden made changes - 13/Nov/08 05:22 PM

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Sue Linden made changes - 13/Nov/08 05:39 PM

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Sue Linden made changes - 13/Nov/08 05:54 PM

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Sue Linden made changes - 13/Nov/08 06:14 PM

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Sue Linden made changes - 13/Nov/08 06:30 PM

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Gellan Glenelg made changes - 19/Jan/09 05:00 PM

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This issue is original of duplicate ~~VWR-11620~~ [ ~~VWR-11620~~ ]

Maggie Darwin made changes - 20/Jan/09 11:44 AM

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This issue Relates to ~~VWR-9979~~ [ ~~VWR-9979~~ ]

Altie Benoir made changes - 03/May/09 06:53 PM

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This issue is related to by VWR-13201 [ VWR-13201 ]