SC2Mapster

How do I remove a unit's (actor's) shadow?

I thought this would be simple but nothing I've tried works, and I can't find a topic on it. Thanks for any help.

Solution: Use the actor message "SetCastShadows" do disable the actor's shadow, and use "SetCastShadows 1" to enable it.

@acidragoon: Go

I don't care if it's for one individual actor, all actors of the type or whatever, I just want it gone :P But, I want to keep shadows as normal for everything else. Namely, it's the Terratron Saw that's causing me problems. I don't mind that a disc of light is casting a shadow in the first place, the problem is that the shadow is really bugged out (it's like big squares rotating around).

@ubermikeleet: Go

There are 2 types of shadows as I'm aware of:

- Real shadows that constructed based on lightning and height. (Only show with high game settings). To disable it, send actor message Set Shadow Visibility 1 to actor or actor of unit etc..

- Fixed shadows for low shader/shadows settings: A fixed 0.5 shadows on the ground for any given unit. To turn this off, go to the model in Data Editor: Set Shadow Radius to 0.0 (default 0.5). Note: This shadow is not visible on higher settings

Your teratron's behavior should be real shadow

@progammer: Go

Thanks for the reply. I took another look at the actor messages and it looks like the message is actually "SetCastShadows". "SetCastShadows" will disable the actor's shadow, and "SetCastShadows 1" will enable them.

@ubermikeleet: Go

My mistake, it should be the GUI version so its a little different, but 0 is off and 1 is on

• bump* someone got a working solution for this, since this doesnt seem to work (anymore ?).

i did send SetCastShadows (which is equal to SetCastShadows 0)