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Removing a shadow

Fern

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Hi, there, Everyone. I'm back

I have a beautiful hill in bgl format already. Unfortunately the author made it with a rectangular base, or "skirt", and buried said base, but left the original code with shadows.

The result is that the beautiful hill casts the rectangular shadow of the "skirt" (even though the skirt is slightly under ground level, and the only way to make it look OK is to disable the shadows of all ground objects, which I don't like to do.

So, I tried the two bgl-to-sca decompilers I have to create an sca file, edited the ShadowCall out, but neither one produced an sca file that SCASM could re-compile into a bgl.

Does anyone have any other ideas about how to remove a shadow from a bgl of a single object?

Thanks

Fern
 
Hi Fern,

What kind of errors did you get when you tried to recompile? Maybe they are easy to solve.
 
Removing Shadows

Hi, Arno

In one word, the error I get is "bing".

The black window show so fast that I don't have time to read anything, I just hear the old "DOS" bell. No bgl file gets generated. I tried with both SCASM versions I have, the last one being 2.9.

Thanks

Fern
 
Could you compile from the DOS prompt? Then you will see all those nice errors and messages.
 
SCASM in DOS

Hi, Arno

The things keeps telling me that "scasm is not a recognized internal or externam command, operable programme or batch file"...

When I click and drag in Windows it works - for sca files that actually work.

Any clues?

F
 
Hi Fern,

You need to type the full path to SCASM when you try to compile of course. Else it will not find the exe. Something like this:

Code: 
c:\my path\to scasm\scasm.exe myfile.sca
 
Problem Solved

Hi, Arno

Thanks... but I decided that it would be better to make my own hill, which I did, and which looks better than the one I was trying to fix.

However, I have another minor problem with ObPlacer XML, that I will ask elsewhere in the forum.

Thanks!

Fern
 
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