Shadows get clipped for large critters

[DudeMcDude]

Example: Hezrou Guardian (proto 14360). Might have to play its attack animation to see it.

[shartte]

In which shadow mode? Shadow maps?

[DudeMcDude]

Yeah shadow maps.

[shartte]

Have you checked whether this bug is present in vanilla?

[shartte]

A bit of background info: The positioning of the shadowmap texture on the ground is based on the object radius and object render height. Both are calculated "inaccurately" by taking the current animation frame and calculating the height of that. That is only done once however, for the idle animation. So if a model has an extremely high attack animation, it might exceed the calculated size for the shadow map buffer.

I wonder if this is already a problem with the vanilla approach. I'll try to reproduce this in vanilla.

[shartte]

Checked against the Hezrou Guardian in Vanilla (co8): Radius = 45 Height = 152.79

I verified that TemplePlus is using the same values.

[shartte]

Here's a screenshot of the issue on TemplePlus:

[shartte]

This is how it looks in vanilla, which also doesn't seem to be correct:

[shartte]

I suggest we put this to lower priority since it seems to be present in vanilla too.

This is actually not that easy to fix with the strange shadow map algorithm that ToEE uses.

[DudeMcDude]

Yeah, I guess I never noticed it now since I always played with blob shadows.