I should add; do not place the composition importer patch in an additional "macro layer" when attempting this or rendering itself gets much glitchier, and breaks in a worse way than this. This can be seen by taking the previous attachment, selecting the composition importer and creating a new macro.
-GT On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:50 PM, George Toledo <[email protected]> wrote: > There have already been bugs filed on the fact that the shadow option on > Lighting cancels iterations created by the iterator. > > When looking at the mesh loader/renderer system a few minutes ago, I had a > kind of mental leap where it occurred to me that it might be possible that a > QC Composition that uses an Iterator may: > > 1: Not "lose it's iterations" when in a Lighting Environment with shadows > enabled if loaded as a distinct composition via the Composition Importer, > within that Lighting environment. > 2: Shadows might actually work with said composition when loaded this way > as well. > > My results are that a composition that uses iteration will indeed continue > to perform "correctly" in iteration function when inside of a Lighting > environment with shadows enabled, if loaded with the composition importer. > > Further, shadows "sort of" work in a wrong way. > > Shadow will successfully happen upon a sprite placed behind a composition > that uses iteration and is loaded with a composition importer, that reflects > geometry of the loaded scene. See the attachment where I use the Random > Nested Iterator, loaded via composition importer, and it creates a "shadow > grid" on the Sprite placed "behind". > > The problems are that it will texture the scene that is being loaded with > the composition importer with shadow, and also not seem to create shadows > that are placed as one would normally expect on the Sprite behind the > Composition Importer renderer. Moving the x/y/z params on the Lighting > environment should show both the unexpected placement of shadow, as well as > the incorrect rendering of shadow on the loaded composition. > > I report this to the list because it could possibly be of benefit when for > "some reason" one needed to have an iterated function happening within a > Lighting environment with shadows enabled, if these visual problems didn't > matter. Perhaps it may also point to some kind of solution to fixing the > problem with using iteration and the shadow option in Lighting, if it will > work in this one scenario. > > George Toledo > [email protected] > www.georgetoledo.com > > The information contained in this E-mail and any attachments may be > confidential. > If you have received this E-mail in error, please notify us immediately by > telephone or return E-mail. > You should not use or disclose the contents of this E-mail or any of the > attachments for any purpose or to any persons. > > -- George Toledo [email protected] www.georgetoledo.com The information contained in this E-mail and any attachments may be confidential. If you have received this E-mail in error, please notify us immediately by telephone or return E-mail. You should not use or disclose the contents of this E-mail or any of the attachments for any purpose or to any persons.
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