What are these weird shadows?
And how do I get rid of them? I removed my mods and CC so it's a vanilla game. I deleted localthumbcache, avatarcache, and spotlight_en-us. Now everything in the game has these weird shadows. What the...
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"Chicklet453681;c-17885374" wrote:
That's the shadow plane for that part of the mesh, anything that uses an alpha type texture, ie: plant leaves, go on a flat square plane with the background transparent, allowing only the plant leaf (or in the case of your radio the antenna) but the game casts shadows on the shape of a mesh, so it's using the shape of the plane that the texture is on to cast that shadow on the wall.
As a creator, I normally remove my plant from my mesh before creating the shadow LOD so that way it doesn't cast a shadow for the plane that the plant texture is on.
MESH SHAPE
https://i.imgur.com/7BG8lB5.png
MESH TEXTURED WITHOUT ALPHA
https://i.imgur.com/bEq0KwW.png
MESH TEXTURED WITH ALPHA (How you see it in the game)
https://i.imgur.com/gzXtdpj.png
So is this just part of the vanilla game and it happens for everyone? I had a mod to remove it off cc, but I never noticed it on maxis meshes before now.
