Is there a way to cast shadows from one layer onto another?

I have an object that is casting a shadow but another object will not recieve that shadow unless it is on the same layer. I need this object to receive shadows AND be on a differnt layer.

 

You could create a script which handles receiving/casting shadows flags on startup.

 

A shadow-casting light can affect multiple layers - they just have to be selected in its culling mask.

 

I have a directional light with everything set to active on the culling mask. In the layer I created (guns) , the shadows wont show up unless I set the objects layer to default.

 

lets say I have a wall on layer 1 that is casting a shadow.
my gun will only receive the shadow if it is on the same layer as the wall. either layer 1 OR 2. whereas I need them on seperate layers and recieving the same amount of shadows
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I'm having the same issue.

My weapons are in a "Weapons" layer, my world objects are in "default", I have a directional light with it's culling mask set to both "default" and "weapons".

I have two cameras, the main camera to render the world, the weapons camera to render just the weapons so they don't get clipped when walking up to a wall or something.

The main camera is on depth 0 and the weapon camera is set to 1.

This is the typical FPS camera / weapons setup

The realtime shadows only effect objects in their same layer. So, I get realtime shadow on the world objects but not on the weapons, the weapons receive shadows only from themselves.

 

We're facing exactly the same issue here. Light probes are not helping either.
This is rather annoying if not horrible.

Anyone found a solution this this yet?

 

The best solution I found was to use only one camera by putting the weapons under the main camera and remove the weapons camera then make the weapons retract (hide) when getting close to an object. Unfortunately I couldn't get that in on our latest project.

 

Thanks, this is terrible news.
I still hope to find a viable solution althought I start to think there might be none ><

I've asked PolyVector, he recently released 2 cool shadow packages for unity, if someone could give a good answer it must be him I suppose.
If you're interested I posted the question here; http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/200024-Shadow-Softener-Official-Thread/page3 .

 

Having the same problem

 

Has there been any progress on this issue?

 

Hey guys,

I made a tutorial about this and it does work :

I hope I can help some people with this

 

I have this same problem. Unfortunately the solution from tom1103 won't work for me since the objects I want to cast shadows are translating and rotating every Update and it's a lot of overhead having duplicates of them. Did anyone ever find an alternate solution to this problem?

 

Drunken Lizard Games posted an solution, but i can't find it right now. I thought what he did, was using scripts attached to the objects that had to cast to a different layer, but if it takes a lot of processing power, that's my question I haven't tested it yet.

 

I figured out a workable solution for my case:

1) Make a parent game object that has the collider & rigid body

2) Now add two nested children to it, each with the same Mesh + Mesh Renderer components

3) Name one of them "View" and the other "Shadow Only"

4) For the View object, use these settings:



5) For the Shadow Only object, use these settings:



6) Now apply all physics & animations to the parent object, and everything else should work naturally!

(Thanks to tom1103 for setting me in the right direction!)

 

Well as a matter of fact I found a solution : https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/5hpzff/working_fps_shader_with_clipping_correction_and/ If you know your shader basics you can even have a different FOV for the weapon and the world view Know it's a bit late but since the post has been necroed mid 2016, I figured I might as well add this

 

This seems good, sadly doesn't work on deferred rendering, right?

 

Similar problem here. I got two different Layers to use different light angle but I need the objects to cast shadows on objects on the other Layer. Any Idea?

 

I'm using the 'First Person View' from @eskovas and got great results for my use case

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/camera/first-person-view-2-67929