Ugly shadows

[revi]

I tried to upload picture but had no luck. However the shadow looks like a mesh, made of horizontal and vertical lines.

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by revi

I tried to upload picture but had no luck. However the shadow looks like a mesh, made of horizontal and vertical lines.

Yeah, that is what I feared.

LoOn already posted how to get them from the fill-pattern to a semi-transparent shadow. If that doesn't solve the problem, you can upload a picture for free to www.Photobucket.com, for example.

Nevertheless as I responded to your initial post, the shadows will still be too hard and based on the low poly-model, may this comment be helpful or not.

[proton45]

Maybe you got your answer already, but more information is always good.


"Polygon Stipple - This is a way of emulating or faking translucent shadows when the stencil buffer is turned off. It does this by creating a "dotted" effect that looks translucent (not unlike the stubble of incoming facial hair). Turn this off for a small performance boost. If stencil buffer and polygon stipple are both turned off, you'll get completely black shadows which isn't much of a drawback."


Does that describe the problem your having? I took the paragraph from the page below, and it helps explain the basic graphics settings...

Find out more about IL2 settings on this page of the "mission 4 today".

http://mission4today.com/index.php?n...p=show&kid=390

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by proton45

Maybe you got your answer already, but more information is always good.


"Polygon Stipple - This is a way of emulating or faking translucent shadows when the stencil buffer is turned off. It does this by creating a "dotted" effect that looks translucent (not unlike the stubble of incoming facial hair). Turn this off for a small performance boost. If stencil buffer and polygon stipple are both turned off, you'll get completely black shadows which isn't much of a drawback."


Does that describe the problem your having? I took the paragraph from the page below, and it helps explain the basic graphics settings...

Find out more about IL2 settings on this page of the "mission 4 today".

http://mission4today.com/index.php?n...p=show&kid=390

Correct, Proton. That is how you can change the settings without changing data in the ini-files.

[revi]

Alright, thanks for your all your help guys. My problem is fixed, I have changed the setting ARBext1 to ARBext3. Shadows now look good.
Appreciate your help.