Problem with shadow in-game

[tyran_nick]

I am trying to resurrect some old models from a spring 82 mod to spring 94. In the old version the model was working fine. In the new version when I set shadows = on, at spring preferences, I get a black model in-game. If I set shadows = off then the model is fine.

I tried adjusting the green channel in my second texture, but to no avail.
I even tried using a texture from another model (I changed the textures in upspring - dimensions match, and the texture is not black!) that works fine in spring 94, but I still get a black model.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[smoth]

Nope. Post the model files so some can help you.

[tyran_nick]

I ve uploaded two models (s3o, textures and scripts, unit defs just in case).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/eiikr8t74kboid7/models.zip

Thanks!

[smoth]

Lol. Well I can't really help(about to go jump into the jungle and internet gets expensive in new guinea. But maybe some else can. Best of luck!

[knorke]

sounds more like your graphics card/driver does not like new spring version. Are units in other mods black too?

[PicassoCT]

Normals. I had this too.
Load it into upspring and invert the normals.

[tyran_nick]

It was the normals, thanks!

[PicassoCT]

hurray, world notice my advice was usefull once! Although it was not my advice in the first place. Thanks goes to devs, who regularly sort this sort of "moddev-bugs" out of the mantis prayers.


Report bugs, they would report you if they could!

[tyran_nick]

I noticed that when I put the unit definition flag: 'hoverattack = true'
the default state of a gunship becomes to stay airborne. Is there another flag to retain gunship functionality but force landing at the end of the attack? -- Ignore this! It was lua script hidden somewhere

I have been translating untidefs, weapons and features into Lua. I ve made a matlab (thats what I feel comfortable at programming!) script to convert fbi unit definitions automatically to lua. I couldn't do it for weapons, since there is no 1 to 1 equivalence. If anybody is interested, I am happy to share, or run the script for you.

[CarRepairer]

http://code.google.com/p/zero-k/source/ ... bi2lua.lua

[tyran_nick]

That's neat!
I guess my approach is useful if you don't want to pack the units in a mod, but that shouldn't be too difficult