Shadow Object or Alternative?

[Patrick]

Hello people.

For mt RPG game im looking for an object that allows the creation of shadows. Basicly what it does is return a black skewed and resized version of the MASK.
If an object is to much of a hassle. Maybe it is already possible? Please let me know how.

[Ross]

I could make an object to do that. Of course, it's already possible to do manually, but a bit of a hassle.
I was thinking of an object to do this anyway...

[SEELE]

make sure we can mess with it a bit(sorce & scale)

[Patrick]

How is this already possible in MMF then?

[Sphax]

you can paste an active into an overlay, change the shape to black and then deform it to use the result as a shadow.

[Ross]

not skewed i suppose.

[Patrick]

Sphax, that i guessed. I stil dont know how todo it :P And ye, as greyhill says, how do i make it skewed? cause i can draw into the overlay, but then what?

hmmm... meybe i just go with 2 more layers for my RPG engine, that is, shadowlayers. Where i just use prerendered shadow tiles.

[Sphax]

I've not said that the solution will be fast but it's possible to skewed the picture in the overlay with some mathematics.

But for a game, I don't recommend it. An extension dedicated to that should be the better solution.

[Popcorn]

Yeah, an extension is probably the best solution. Anyway, I wanted to try and make it without one

MMF is too slow for using this method on moving objects, but it works fine for static ones.

Get it here

[Patrick]

thanks for all the support guys :P