Tutorial - Rendering A Shadow Map

[warrior462]

Alright, got past that, I now have the bitmap file, but when I get it in photoshop I can't save it as a pgm. I got shadows.pgm.bmp, a bitmap file, when I tried. How do I save it as a pgm?

[yzmxer608]

Should be listed under portable bitmap, think it's .pbm, but just change the extension and it'll work still.

[warrior462]

I don't have that as an option, using photoshop 6.0. I tried saving it as raw, and was able to make it a pgm file from there, but the game couldn't read it and wouldn't open the track with that in the folder.

[yzmxer608]

Looks like Gimp supports PBM. http://www.quackit.com/web_graphics/gim ... ormats.cfm

[warrior462]

Thanks a ton man, I assumed with photoshop I would never have to bother with Gimp, guess I was wrong.

[yz171kx12]

Why does this happen? It just stays like this when I add the shadows file. I know this was already mentioned, but I don't get how to make it work.

[alien10swe]

please help me it always fucks upp

[yzmxer608]

Thanks for giving us info on errors or anything at all that could tell us what's going wrong!

[rafagas]

Thanks for giving us info on errors or anything at all that could tell us what's going wrong!

Nah, is your fault for not being a fortune teller lol

[dempamxr]

im a total newb at this but what should i do here

// PUT SUN CO-ORDINATE IN THE ARROW BRACKETS
parallel
point_at <0, 0, 0>
} and here?

how do i get to know what to there?

[yzmxer608]

Take the sun_vector coordinates from the lighting file and put them in the brackets next to point_at.

Lighting
sun_vector [ 1.00 1.00 1.00 ] (Vector of the sun, [x y z])
sun_color [ 1.00 1.00 0.50 ] (Floating-point colour value, [Red Green Blue]. Equivalent to RGB values in photoshop divided by 255)
ambient [ 0.25 0.25 0.50 ] (Ditto)

[dempamxr]

Take the sun_vector coordinates from the lighting file and put them in the brackets next to point_at.

Lighting
sun_vector [ 1.00 1.00 1.00 ] (Vector of the sun, [x y z])
sun_color [ 1.00 1.00 0.50 ] (Floating-point colour value, [Red Green Blue]. Equivalent to RGB values in photoshop divided by 255)
ambient [ 0.25 0.25 0.50 ] (Ditto)

thanks

[NAUpoiss75]

Mine says that cannot open PPM image startgate.ppm?

[DJ99X]

Search and replace ppm "startgate.ppm" with png "dummy.png" (as mentioned in the tute)

[Phathry25]

Umm I need some help here.
when i put shadows.pgm into my tack folder and start to open my track in game it comes up with this.



Does anyone know what i need to do to fix this ?.

P.S Sorry for all the posts.

Having the same issue as this guy, minus the stolen game...

Any idears?