Turn on/off shadows per object ingame

[YouGroove]

Ability to change if some object will receive shadows or not by code at runtime.

This would allow us to fine tune when shadows display or not for some objects during gamelay :

- on complex level groups , shadows on/off per sector

- for custom usage tunning turn it offf/on with camera distance

- for characters, only shadows for some number of characters that are the nearest to camera

 

As shadows are heavy cost, this possibility would be a first step in optimisation direction.

[shadmar]

Set Cast Shadows to none in the editor under the apperance tab.

 

or

 

Lua:

self.entity:SetShadowMode(0)

 

CPP

entity->SetShadowMode(0);