Align shadow to a terrain?

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Giano

(Posted 2006) [#1]

I'd like to use shadows with terrain like quads aligned to the terrain.

Which is the best way to align a (quad) entity to terrain?

thanks

Jams	(Posted 2006) [#2]

What you want to do is a LinePick() straight down from your entity.

Then you can get the pick normals and align your shadow using the AlignToVector() command.

It would look something like this:

LinePick( x, y, z, 0, -1, 0 )
AlignToVector( meshHND, PickedNX(), PickedNY(), PickedNZ(), 2 )

Giano

(Posted 2006) [#3]

Wow thanks, simple and usefull!