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No shaddows in fsds

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Hello fellow simmers

I use Fsds to create my scenerys ( i prefer it to g-max ) , but resently i have come on to a problem.

In Fsds i create houses , roadesighns , lampposts and so on and then make a bgl-file to my sim from Fsds and everything works fine but when it comes to , in my case , fences , the problem begins

In my sceneryobject i want everything exept the fences around the house to cast shaddows in the sim.

I have tride changing a lot of pre-processise in the part proppertys ( and i think it´s somewher there the solusseon to my problem is ) without any sucssese.

At the moment i make my fences in Fsds , then creating api:s , send them to FS Scenery creatror and place them there.

So everyone understand that is a timeconsuming and not so very fun job trying to align houses and fences in different programs , so my question is :

Is it in some way posible to make single parts of a whole scenery project , having a lot of parts , not to show any shaddow in the fs but the outher parts do?

Is it posible in my favoriteprograme FSDS?

Rogga
 
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Hi Rogga,

That would only be possible if you tweak the API macro manually afterwards (so that some parts are not included in the ShadowCall command). But directly from FSDS this is not possible.

It is probably easier to make two different macros.
 
No shaddow in fsds

Thanke you wery much for your quick answer Arno.

I´m not sure i made my self cleare before ( or maybe i´m just tired now ) but i do not want to make api macros of my intire scenery , instead i make bgl:s of everything directly from Fsds to the sim , whithout using any outher program ( not at the moment , but i hope to be able to it )
I know hove to make the changes to the shaddowCall in Fssc to speciffic Api macros but i whish i would be able to do the same changes to speciffic parts in Fsds and then compile everything to one bgl-file

Yours tired and comfused
Rogga
 
Hi Rogga,

I am not an expert in FSDS, since I have not used it anymore for 3 years or so, but if I remember correct that will not be possible. You can only get an effect like this if you tweak the SCASM code manually somewhere along the line.

So if you want to get a BGL directly out of FSDS, I am afraid it will not work.
 
Ok , well . who is the expert :) :) :)

I´m really greatfull to your answers to my questions and your efforts trying to help me , but somewhere in the back of my head i think the possebiletys is in the pre-processis , but never mind , you tried to enlightend a newcommer.

To my next problem , and everything is as before , making bgl:s directly from Fsds.

Is it posioble to make a object ( tree ) rotate whith the aircrft .

I use Eod now to make Api macros placing them in Fssc now , but what about Fsds?
 
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