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masonb

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  • 2023-04-14 at 5:21 pm in reply to: Shadows for transparency and 2-sided materials. #62081
    masonb
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    kdv wrote:
    masonb wrote:

    Do you have any idea about the cutout/transparency shadows?

    I don’t know what exactly you want to get. More details. If you don’t want semi-transparent materials casting shadows then just disable shadows for them.

    For example, I have a single quad that I’ve applied a cutout material to in order to make it look like grass. When it cast a shadow, I would expect it to cast the shadow of the grass (since it’s a mask) but as you can see in the example, it is only casting the shadow of the full quad.

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    2023-04-12 at 1:42 pm in reply to: Shadows for transparency and 2-sided materials. #62012
    masonb
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    kdv wrote:
    masonb wrote:

    Do you have any idea about the cutout/transparency shadows?

    I don’t know what exactly you want to get. More details. If you don’t want semi-transparent materials casting shadows then just disable shadows for them.

    I’m trying to planes with cutout materials. So for example, this grass is a plane with a texture on it. I’m trying to get the shadow to be that of the grass, rather than that of the entire plane.

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    2023-04-11 at 1:23 pm in reply to: Shadows for transparency and 2-sided materials. #61972
    masonb
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    kdv wrote:

    I gave you a reference to the particular parameter: shadowSide

    About the screenshots:
    object.material.side = v3d.DoubleSide – in both cases double-sided
    object.material.shadowSide = v3d.FrontSide – the first image
    object.material.shadowSide = v3d.BackSide – the second image

    The plane has a flipped square in the center.

    If you want both sides casting shadows at the same time use
    object.material.shadowSide = v3d.DoubleSide

    Ahhh, okay. I couldn’t see the geometry there so I thought you had a single quad and you were trying to show me a cutout.
    Do you have any idea about the cutout/transparency shadows?

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    2023-04-10 at 6:49 pm in reply to: Shadows for transparency and 2-sided materials. #61948
    masonb
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    kdv wrote:
    masonb wrote:

    Currently I can’t find a way to make 2 sided materials get a shadow from the back side

    The way is rather simple
    https://www.soft8soft.com/docs/api/en/materials/Material.html#shadowSide

    So I see that you’re referencing the two sided materials, and yes that is currently turned on in the verge settings for the material. After some fiddling around I found that my issue was actually a setting on my light, which I had deleted and re-instanced in 3ds Max.

    But as for the cutout planes, I see what you have achieved in the pictures, but I’m not actually sure how you’ve done it. Can you elaborate a little?

    2023-04-10 at 4:56 pm in reply to: Material Maps connections coming in broken from 3Ds Max. #61942
    masonb
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    That doesn’t make a lot of sense, because there are even puzzles that specifically have drop downs that let you choose from the nodes.

    Regardless, I figured out the issue. The nodes that were coming in incorrectly were doing so because they shared a file association in the scene in 3ds Max. Splitting the file into separate ones per node now has the puzzle editor showing all of the correct nodes.

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