[General] Calculate Shadow & Save Map

[Ironside]

Well I wanted to try what it does, and so I did without rather asking here.
After I finished I noticed lots of shadows appearing all over the map. There I thought "should have expected as much" until I entered the game and saw that the shadows are in game to!

Does anyone know how to reverse the Calculate Shadows?

 

[Crazed_seal2]

If your using JNGP, there should be backups of your map.

Other than that, no. I don't think so. Or you can try and MPQ edit and find some sorta shadow data.

 

[rysnt11]

Calculate shadow work as the 'sun coordinator' or in other word, it's the one that make shadow
If you want to remove those shadow, you might want to destroy all doodad that you've been placed, try this:
Place 1 ashenvale stalagmite at the middle of new map, and calculate the shadow, and you'll see the shadow of the stalagmite after the shadow calcuLation done

 

[Ironside]

It's not just doodats, it's for all objects, including terrain cliff and buildings.

 

[-Kobas-]

Calculate Shadows is there to reduce lag WE lag, it will generate shadow for all objects placed on the map, yes even cliffs and terrain in general.

If you remove cliff shadow will remain, omg what to do now?

Well just calculate shadows again

 

[Ironside]

So basically I'd have to delete and placeall objects again?

 

[-Kobas-]

No, just calculate shadows again
It will remove old ones, like instantly and slowly create new ones

 

[Talavaj]

why would you want to remove the shadows anyway ? it looks much better with them.

 

[rysnt11]

@kobas: he want to remove those shadow, and make his map like it was before he calculate the shadow
@ironside: well, if you want to remove those shadow, then you must delete all the doodad and blizzard cliff, then calculate shadow again (in order to remove the shadow), after that place all doodad, and terrain
be sure to use 2 different map
eg:
currently "Problematic" map - Iron Hill
make a backup:
Iron HillBC
then edit the doodad, and the terrain inside the "Iron HillBC"
after that just open your "Iron Hill" map, and go to doodad pallete
press CTRL + A, and CTRL + C
then go back to your map, and press CTRL+ V
your map must be mass lagged, but don't worry, as long as you place your cursor at the middle of your map, it wouldn't be so hard to place the doodad
also i'd prefer to copy and paste the terrain first, then the doodad

 

[-Kobas-]

You can copy everything but import manager is really retarded and he will lost good know how much time importing everything again.

 

[rysnt11]

nah
that's the use of backups
just copy the same map (same imports and stuff, just different in name)
one is the original
and the other is the copied, that can be deleted doodads, and terrains
so he just need to copy from the original to the backups map

 

[Garfield1337]

You can copy everything but import manager is really retarded and he will lost good know how much time importing everything again.

There's an option to import/export all files; he can export them to a folder and instantly import after. The only thing that will take time is settting paths for textures.

 

[WaterKnight]

You may open the map archive with a mpq editor and remove the .shd file. Or you extract MiscData.txt from UI\ from War3Patch.mpq, set the entry

[Light]
// Vector from light to world
Direction=0.3,0.3,-0.25

to 0., 0., 0. instead and put this file into Warcraft III\UI\. You need to restart the editor afterwards and can recalculate the shadows with this new null vector then.

 

[-Kobas-]

There's an option to import/export all files; he can export them to a folder and instantly import after. The only thing that will take time is settting paths for textures.

Exactly.

 

[Ironside]

I see, I'll do as suggested above.

This thread is now solved.

 

[rysnt11]

nah
that's the use of backups
just copy the same map (same imports and stuff, just different in name)
one is the original
and the other is the copied, that can be deleted doodads, and terrains
so he just need to copy from the original to the backups map

is there anyone who read this one????

 

[Ironside]

Yes I did read it.

 

[Dr Super Good]

You just need clean the shadow map file from the map archive. Deleting it will suffice as WE will remake the file.

 

[WaterKnight]

You just need clean the shadow map file from the map archive. Deleting it will not suffice as WE requires that file be present to open a map.

Nope.

 

[Dr Super Good]

It seems deleting the file is safe. If the file does not match the expected specifications it will also throw you an "Invalid shadow map file" error and not crash.

The reason for my misinformation must have been down to other errors occuring along with an "Invalid shadow map file" error crashing the editor when I was messing around with the .w3e file.