[General] help

[alexanderlow00]

So..I don't know why but the shadow of the unit is above the unit.
Can someone tell me what is the problem?

Image Updated:This is what I mean by saying the shadow above the unit.

Left side:If you look carefully,there is a very thin black line,that's the shadow of the unit.Cliff level is 2. I can confirm that.

Right side:There are no thin black line because I am using the cliff terrain and raise it to cliff level 5.

PS: I tried to adjust the art-shadow image x,y,height and width,not solving the problem.

 

[RobertMKD]

Go to the Object Editor, find the unit and adjust it's shadow at

Art - Shadow Image - Center X
Art - Shadow Image - Center Y
Art - Shadow Image - Height
Art - Shadow Image - Width

I assume that it's a custom unit, if so, go to the unit using this model (rock golem I guess?) and copy the values of the fields above, if it's a different size, then adjust the Height and Width on your own, but make sure you give them a same value e.g. Height 140, Width 140.

 

[Wietlol]

Shadows are not bound to a unit's model.
Shadows of a unit are just a dark filter on the ground placed at a certain displacement from the units origin.
In the object editor of that unit, you can find a few shadow settings under the Art category.

A few of those are these:
Art - Shadow Image - Center X
Art - Shadow Image - Center Y
Art - Shadow Image - Height
Art - Shadow Image - Width

The Center X and Center Y are the displacement (I suppose from the units origin but could be anything else. Be aware that this is the lower left (probably) corner of the image. Just try some stuff with it until you know what to do).

The Height and Width are pretty simple. Just change them until they look realistic compared to the unit.

 

[Dr Super Good]

So..I don't know why but the shadow of the unit is above the unit.

From the looks of the image the shadow is "North" of the unit and not "above". This would be an incorrectly set "Art - Shadow Image - Center Y" field in the unit object type entry. Adjust it until the shadow is appropriately positioned so that it touches the unit feet and stretches North East of the unit.

 

[alexanderlow00]

Thanks I will take all of these as an advice and possible solution for it.

 

[Flux]

Thanks I will take all of these as an advice and possible solution for it.

Its funny because they all give the same advice

 

[Wietlol]

From the looks of the image the shadow is "North" of the unit ... This would be an incorrectly set "Art - Shadow Image - Center X" field in the unit object type entry.

Sorry, X axis and North?
Same as Red Square + Pineapple = Hard Feelings?

What you meant was the Y axis and Center Y and increase that amount by something like 60.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Seen this before. It also applies to targeting overlays in that terrain area.

Not sure what the cause is but I believe it is the result of the water mesh layer. If you send me the map (or the w3e file in it) I can try to investigate further what is wrong with the terrain in that area.

 

[alexanderlow00]

Seen this before. It also applies to targeting overlays in that terrain area.

Not sure what the cause is but I believe it is the result of the water mesh layer. If you send me the map (or the w3e file in it) I can try to investigate further what is wrong with the terrain in that area.

If you want, I can pm you my map with it.

 

[Dr Super Good]

I can pm you my map with it.

That should work. I need to look at the exact construction of the terrain vertices in that map area to try and discover what is wrong. I had a similar issue a very long time ago before I had the tools to analyse the cause.

 

[LordDz]

How does it look ingame?

 

[alexanderlow00]

How does it look ingame?

Well, it appear as if its on the north of the unit some are on west or east.
I posted the image on first post with map attachment.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Water mesh was above ground mesh. Result is all overlays (targeting and shadow) float above the ground. Just because water flag is disabled does not mean the mesh is not there.

I re-computed the water mesh for the entire map to be -0.25 normalized units below the ground mesh. I cannot guarantee that the problem is completely fixed (or that parts of the map are not broken as a result) everywhere but some rough tests could not re-create the problem anymore.

This is what the water mesh looked like before applying height clamp.

This is the one I generated.

This JAVA code was used in combination with my W3E API to produce the new water mesh.

		System.out.println("performing transfrom");
		terrain.simpleTransform(V -> {
			double egh = TerrainVertex.convertHeightVertexToNormalized(V.getGroundHeight()) + V.getCliffLevel() - 2;
			double ewh = TerrainVertex.convertHeightVertexToNormalized(V.getWaterHeight()) - 0.7;
			if( ewh > egh ) V.setWaterHeight(TerrainVertex.convertHeightNormalizedToVertex(egh + 0.7 - 0.25));
		});

Darker means lower and you can see that a lot has been lowered.

 

[alexanderlow00]

Water mesh was above ground mesh. Result is all overlays (targeting and shadow) float above the ground. Just because water flag is disabled does not mean the mesh is not there.

I re-computed the water mesh for the entire map to be -0.25 normalized units below the ground mesh. I cannot guarantee that the problem is completely fixed (or that parts of the map are not broken as a result) everywhere but some rough tests could not re-create the problem anymore.

This is what the water mesh looked like before applying height clamp.

This is the one I generated.

This JAVA code was used in combination with my W3E API to produce the new water mesh.

		System.out.println("performing transfrom");
		terrain.simpleTransform(V -> {
			double egh = TerrainVertex.convertHeightVertexToNormalized(V.getGroundHeight()) + V.getCliffLevel() - 2;
			double ewh = TerrainVertex.convertHeightVertexToNormalized(V.getWaterHeight()) - 0.7;
			if( ewh > egh ) V.setWaterHeight(TerrainVertex.convertHeightNormalizedToVertex(egh + 0.7 - 0.25));
		});

Darker means lower and you can see that a lot has been lowered.

Thanks,you are good,can I know how did you do this 0.0. I want to learn it XD

 

[Dr Super Good]

Thanks,you are good,can I know how did you do this 0.0. I want to learn it XD

Java program with some APIs for W3E interface. Extracted and replaced the w3e file using MPQEdit. I will make the libraries open source soon.