Dark Forest

[Obergefreiter]

I am making a dark forested area with deep shadows but the shadow caulk is solid and players can't walk through it. I am using full sunlight lighting for my skybox so how do I build this.

I want the player to walk inot and out of the bright sun.

Thanks

[mohaa_rox]

try this:

select that brush, press "s" and check nonsolid on the right.

hope this helps.

[Obergefreiter]

I tried non-solid and noimpact under surface properties but it did not work.

Its just a 512x512x512 brush

Any other ideas?

Thanks

[tltrude]

Turn it into a Script_object entity and checkmark the "NOT_SOILD" box. You will probably loose the shadow effect when inside the brush. So, it might be better to just make shadow caulk disks about halfway up each tree.

[rOger]

Make a new shader.

textures/ratest/ra_shadow
{
qer_editorimage textures/ratest/ra_shadow.tga
qer_keyword utility
qer_keyword ra
surfaceparm nodraw
surfaceparm nonsolid
surfaceparm castshadow
surfaceparm nomarks
surfaceparm nolightmap
}

the name ra_shadow is changeable
for the ra_shadow.tga you can use any image really.



I use this myself, so i know it works.