PheonixRising opened this issue on Sep 27, 2001 ยท 31 posts
Nance posted Thu, 27 September 2001 at 1:56 PM
That 'ol thing? pushaw... Thanks, but that tute is somewhat bogus, or at least a very, VERY long way around, and I should modify it or take it down. A lot of the stuff I was recommending there to control shadows was merely an indirect and very complicated way of doing what I described up above. By parenting the lights to a prop, and scaling the prop, I was really just doing the same thing as zooming/scaling the the Shadow Cams point of view without changing the positon of the lights. It was written before I realized that it WAS the Shadow Cams I was actually manipulating, and that it could be done without messing with the lights themselves. Though the end results are the same (so the examples might still be worth a look-see) it's really much easier than all that hoopla. (thanks for the kind words though!)