Shadows for omni and spot lights

skinnytorus 2017-02-06 22:33:18 UTC #1

Hi, devs.
It's too bad omni and spot lights don't support shadows. While a spot light can more or less be replaced by a projection light (with shadow support), the omni light has no substitute shadow-wise. Please, invest some time in improving the situation.
Thank you.

vincent 2017-02-07 13:40:52 UTC #2

Hi, this is already in our task list since a while but we'll need some few more devellopers to enable all theses features

skinnytorus 2017-02-07 19:06:23 UTC #3

Hi, @vincent.armongn.
I see. Thanks for the info.

francis 2017-02-09 16:29:12 UTC #4

Note: you can group 6 projector lights into a group light to have the equivalent of an omni with shadows. It's a bit tricky to do but actually works.

skinnytorus 2017-02-09 21:17:28 UTC #5

Yep. Perhaps then I'll have to create a couple of controllers to drive intensity/color controls of each of the six lights. That's done by creating Links, I suppose?

francis 2017-02-09 22:01:21 UTC #6

Best is to create parameters:
http://smode.fr/doc/features/automation-animation/parameters.htm

skinnytorus 2017-02-09 22:25:24 UTC #7

Thanks. I'll have a look.

vincent 2017-02-10 17:41:25 UTC #8

And best is to expose every parameters you'll need when you got only one light, the when duplicating the lights (to have 6 of them with a 90° FOV), the links will also be automatically duplicated, which is a big time savior ^^.

skinnytorus 2017-02-12 07:23:59 UTC #9

@vincent.armongn
Cool. Thanks for the tip.