Removing terrain shadows

[voidsmith]

Hi all
I wish I could get rid of the terrain shadows in my map, because things occurs during a very dark night, and it feels a bit unrealistic to have the building shadows displayed in that darkness. Do you guys know a way to get an empty shadow map or something?
Thanks by advance

 

[emperor_d3st]

Huh? The object editor has a field like.. shadow texture or something..

 

[voidsmith]

Thx for fast answer but...the object editor? I'm talking about the cliff shadows, not doodad or unit shadows.

 

[Huurka]

I bet you could use some kind of "glowing" doodad that removes shadows, i'm sure i've seen some around.

 

[voidsmith]

nice idea... the problem is that light display in wc3 is already very buggy, with many glitches (twinkling lights, square limitation etc), and I managed to almost suppress them from my map, so adding extra light sources would be a bad idea.
Are you sure there is no way to replace the terrain shadow map by an empty one?

 

[ady_illidan]

in the 'view' tab is something like lightning or shadows (cant remember now) uncheck that

 

[emperor_d3st]

Oh, sorry about that. I was sure I read objects. My bad.

 

[voidsmith]

Oh, sorry about that. I was sure I read objects. My bad.

No prob ^^ ... but still no idea?

in the 'view' tab is something like lightning or shadows (cant remember now) uncheck that

The view tab is the view settings for the editor display only -_-'... not for ingame...

 

[Luthion]

Umm thats easy, make a new map, then with an mpq editor extract the shadow map file and add it into your map (warning: this will remove ALL shadows)
.shd
thats the file extension of the shadow map file, if you don't know how tu use an mpq editor, i can help you

 

[Mr.Goblin]

hum like the other said.. you can remove the unit shadows with the Object Editor.. (Art - Shadow X) etc.. so if you put it to ''0'' it will remove the shadow from the units.. or the doodads... (will take you a long time to remove all but) its 1 way you can do it...

 

[Dr Super Good]

Flatten your terane and recalculate shadow map to remove terane shadows.

As for object shadows, you can use a system simlar to what the anti map hack system does and simply turn them off during the night.

 

[~Void~]

Hmm... that would work DSG but if his map is already terrained well you probably won't want to flatten it.

I suggest re-calculating the shadows.

 

[voidsmith]

Thanks for those suggestions, guys.
But indeed the map is kind of huge and almost fully terrained...
Luthion, I'll try to use this mpq editor, thanks for the tip.