Question about shadows in buildings

Shadow Hunter

I'm making a building with parts of anothers buildings of red alert 2 and I have 2 questions:

Have a tool in shp builder that makes shadow for a building?

If the shp have this tool how i can use it?

MT · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 12:18 am Post subject:

The old SHP Builders have Autoshadows, although they aren't in the recent SHP Builders (I'm not sure when, all I know is that I have the recentest and its not in it). I do believe they were buggy though, hence them being disabled.

Search around the different versions and stuff here; I'm sure there is something about the autoshadows info.

Shadow Hunter · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 12:59 am Post subject:

ok thanks, but how everyone makes shadows now if the new version does not have this?

Paranoia · Cyborg Specialist **Joined**: 04 Aug 2007

they draw the shadow themselves

Shadow Hunter · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 1:29 am Post subject:

Paranoia wrote:

they draw the shadow themselves

But they do this manually or with paint shop?

MT · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 1:58 am Post subject:

Thats like asking "do people eat waffles or pancakes?"
It could be either way, although one is better and higher quality #Tongue

Shadow Hunter · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 2:11 am Post subject:

MT wrote:

Thats like asking "do people eat waffles or pancakes?"
It could be either way, although one is better and higher quality #Tongue

Man, shoot me, call me a noob and everything but i started yesterday to make shp's and i'm don't know nothing Very Happy

and i don't have paint shop pro!

MT · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 2:48 am Post subject:

Shadow Hunter wrote:

MT wrote:

Thats like asking "do people eat waffles or pancakes?"
It could be either way, although one is better and higher quality #Tongue

Man, shoot me, call me a noob and everything but i started yesterday to make shp's and i'm don't know nothing Very Happy

and i don't have paint shop pro!

No ones calling you a noob, it is perfectly normal to ask about such things as a beginner.

I don't have paint shop pro either, costs money x_x.
I thought you were talking about just giving them shadows, but now since you bring in making SHPs...

Most high quality SHPs are made in 3D (with programs such as 3DS Max, Maya, Blender etc.), and then converted to SHP (how else would LKO's awesome mechs exist? #Tongue

).

I believe that when they render (take a high-quality picture of it with lighting) the 3d image, shadows are made and transferred. Such people who use the technique have little work to do in the actual SHP Builder.

Making SHPs is hard, you can't expect to know everything overnight. I'm still trying to learn 3d for it (and all I can make are pyramids or eggs), and I've first got it months ago.

Roaches · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 3:49 am Post subject:

@Shadow Hunter: you can get GIMP which is a free raster graphics editor like Photoshop and Paintshop Pro alike. Its really good. I think its better than some commercial graphics editor products out there. Smile

http://www.gimp.org/windows/

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Dupl3xxx · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 12:18 pm Post subject:

I use GIMP even thoug my school has given me PS CS3. Only gimp has them flame filters Very Happy

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Shadow Hunter · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 12:33 am Post subject:

Ok, thanks i will try to download GIMP (it will be a battle against my dial-up Very Happy

) and sorry for the questions! Smile

Wait! Just one more question: How version is good (and not more than 5mb Very Happy

)?

Roaches · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 1:07 am Post subject:

Well the latest version is most stable, and GIMP is like 28MB large in a compressed installer, as opposed to Photoshop which is around 500MB, so yeah its worth downloading. I'm pretty sure it won't be much of a problem downloading unless you got a bad internet connection.

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Shadow Hunter · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 2:07 am Post subject:

Gamingroach wrote:

Well the latest version is most stable, and GIMP is like 28MB large in a compressed installer, as opposed to Photoshop which is around 500MB, so yeah its worth downloading. I'm pretty sure it won't be much of a problem downloading unless you got a bad internet connection.

Really?
Soo, i will ask to a friend download it and send to my cell phone (i can connect the cell phone to his computer) this is the only way!

Banshee · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 2:12 am Post subject:

You can also use GIMP portable, which is easier to install and smaller (16mb) and runs everywhere once you install it in a pen drive or even in a hard disk.
http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/gimp_portable

I've been playing with it recently and it is excellent.

Portuguese/Português (Brasil): Você pode baixar o GIMP Portable, que é mais fácil de instalar, é menor (16mb) e roda em qualquer lugar quando você instala ele num pen drive ou até mesmo num disco rígido.
http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/gimp_portable

Eu brinquei com ele recentemente e ele é excelente.

Shadow Hunter · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 2:23 am Post subject:

i will try but if i can't i will say to my friend download for me!

xanax · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 14 Nov 2013

MT wrote:

The old SHP Builders have Autoshadows, although they aren't in the recent SHP Builders (I'm not sure when, all I know is that I have the recentest and its not in it). I do believe they were buggy though, hence them being disabled.

Is it still planned to bring Autoshadows back in a future version?
I am using OS SHP Builder 3.38 beta 6 and "Autoshadows" is disabled. Crying or Very sad

Banshee · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 5:41 pm Post subject:

No, we have no plans to bring AutoShadows back. That tool is conceptually wrong. There is no way to define correct shadows when we lack three dimensional information of the graphic object.