[General] Custom Shadows??

[aple]

In the Object Editor, a unit has two particular fields -

Shadow Image (Unit) and
Shadow Texture (Building)

But what I don't understand is, these two fields let you use imported textures, but the game is hard-coded to only use specific textures as the shadows. (From my experience, anyway)

Does anyone know anything about this? Is it possible to use custom, imported, shadows?

 

[aple]

*Bump* Nothing on this?

 

[Cokemonkey11]

You must leave 24 hours between bumps.

If the texture doesn't exist in the MPQ, it's being drawn by the graphics engine.

 

[Talavaj]

Shadow textures can be replaced like any other replaceable texture, but yeah the game seems to not allow extra custom shadows.
So if you want a new shadow you have to replace existing shadow and use it for your new unit.

 

[aple]

Shadow textures can be replaced like any other replaceable texture, but yeah the game seems to not allow extra custom shadows.
So if you want a new shadow you have to replace existing shadow and use it for your new unit.

But the thing is you still don't need those fields to do that...If you just literally replace them via importing a new texture, you don't need to modify the units Shadow (Unit) or Shadow (Building) field, or at least the Shadow (Unit) because there's only TWO shadows for units and that's "Shadow" and "Shadow Flyer"

The Shadow (Building) makes sense to have a field where you can choose something for, but as for units they could have just as easily gone with a Boolean that said "Use Flying Shadow - Yes/No"

My problem here is that it lets you CHOOSE custom imported textures, right from your Import Manager. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me.