Testing one idea for fake spotlight shadows. In the image, spotlight is at the wall, cylinder column is there to block light. (shadowmap size 1024×1024) Current version info: – Have to build the shadow texture manually..(later should be possible to do it all in script) […]

More fake shadow tests.. (currently works from one direction only) Info: – Lets say all of your shadow casting objects are spheres/circular, then we could calculate what area is not visible based on the distance & angle from the player to spheres (or so I […]

Using metablob shader, where sphere positions are linked to the objects that you want to cast spherical shadows (shader is on a plane, where blend mode set to multiplicative) Webplayer: http://unitycoder.com/upload/demos/BlobShadowShader1/ Download source: coming later..

Thanks to this comment, I founded out that you can use GL in unity indie. That means, shadow volumes script from unitycommunity works on free unity also! (on 4.0, those commands should work on the free version anyways..) Download Source: ShadowVolumesExample.unityPackage

Tree shadows are created for terrain trees in Startup(), with adjustable strength, shadow shape, shadow color etc. (unity indie) Ideas/Todo: – Animated shadow? (based on terrain wind settings or just random..?) – Different shadows for different trees (Get treesize, type..) – Angled shadows (currently its […]

Adding more stuff to the previous cloud test, now with fake shadows. (scene works with unity indie) New features: – Animated sky cloud shadows on terrain – Bugs: Currently the clouds are not perfectly aligned.. – Shadow strength can be adjusted (now its 0.5 for […]

New/modified version of the previous test sources: Verlet Integration Cloth The fake shadow (“shadow volumes” from unifycommunity) is bit broken, maybe because we are modifying the vertices at the same time or it didnt really work so well with spheres.. Shader: Gem shaders Webplayer: http://unitycoder.com/upload/demos/VerletIntegrationSoftBody1/ […]

Combine Simple Shadow Casting & Monotone Chain Convex Hull and you have…more fake shadows for unity indie!!1 Works fine for a box..should try the teapot next. Details: – Calculate vectors from the light, through every vertex in target object,  lengthen the vector until reach ground […]

This is quite an early test.. what if you use particles as “light photons” ? Then no need to do raycasting? Current features: (main screenshot) – Shuriken particle system, Shape: Cone, angle:90 – Collision planes on those white boxes (uh..shuriken doesnt support “world collisions”, only […]

Yay..more realtime fake shadows, using similar technique like this old fake vertex shadows test Features: – VertexLit shader with texture – Linecast each vertex towards light, if we can reach light, then lets shine, otherwise stay dark.. – In the webplayer, 15 vertices are scanned […]