Blob Shadows

Do the new blob shadow prefabs use render-to-texture, thus requiring Pro?

 

Glad to hear it.

Thanks, Joe!

 

Heya Joe,

I'm having toruble here. As I understand it, I make the blob shadow prefab a child of some mesh and it will have a blob shadow, right?

The thing is, that's what I'm doing, but no shadow. I do get a noticable change in the overall scene lighting - lots of black everywhere, but no discernable blob shadow. Changing the shadow's parameters changes nothng. I can post a simple project file, if that will help.

Better yet, could you maybe outline the steps to do a blob in detail? Or maybe provide a simple sample scene?

Thanks!

 

Hi. i had the same problem. connecting cookie and falloff to the right assets and using the Projector Multiply shader solved it.

 

Thanks, Phoen.

I'm still having trouble though. My Shadow_Material shader panel Shader entry shows "Hidden/Projector/Multiply". I can't seem to find a way to change it to "Projector". Any suggestions?

BTW, do you know if the Blob Shadow prefab is actually documented anywhere?

Thanks!

 

You can edit your shaders by doubleclicking them. Just change "hidden" to something else. Save and it should appear in the menu. I dont think there is a documentation yet.

 

Thanks for your continued help, Phoen.

Unfortunately, I still can't get it to work. I've included a screenshot that shows how I have everything set up and was hopng you might be able to scan it quickly and catch my mistake.

Basically, I've attached an instance of the BS prefab to a Unity cube mesh named "tracker_mesh" and wired all the parameters as shown. Unfortunately, no shadows seem to be being cast from the cube.

Help me, Obi-Wan, you're my only hope ... ;-)

 

Im sorry, cant find anything.
Have you tried creating a new project or reimporting the standard assets?

 

Yup. A couple of times, in fact.

Oh well, maybe Joe or Nich will reply eventually. They seem to know Unity pretty well. ;-)

Thanks for your help!

 

Thanks, Joe!

This sounds pretty much like what I did and fgured out. I did do it all in an existing project though - maybe something in my scene is interfering with the blob in some way?

I'll give you're steps a try later today and will post again to the forum with my results.

Thanks a million for your help!

 

Well, it worked.

The only thing I did differently was starting with a new project instead of an old one. But, now it works. And, "Wow!", by the way!

I guess just placing the "Standard Assets" folder in the project folder of an existing project doesn't bind the assets completely? That's the only thing different between the workflow that didn't work and the one that did.

Anyway, to anyone watching this post who hasn't played wth blob shadows, give it a whirl. It's way better than "shadows on a plane" (i.e. it doesn't fail on sharp edges, no extra rayCasts)!

 

Well then, I guess that explains it. ;-)

Thanks for the important tip, Joe! Guess I need to read those docs one day.