direct.showbase.ShadowDemo

from direct.showbase.ShadowDemo import ShadowCaster, arbitraryShadow, avatarShadow, piratesAvatarShadow

Create a cheesy shadow effect by rendering the view of an object (e.g. the local avatar) from a special camera as seen from above (as if from the sun), using a solid gray foreground and a solid white background, and then multitexturing that view onto the world.

This is meant primarily as a demonstration of multipass and multitexture rendering techniques. It’s not a particularly great way to do shadows.

Inheritance diagram

class ShadowCaster(lightPath, objectPath, filmX, filmY)

Bases: object

__init__(self, lightPath, objectPath, filmX, filmY)

clear(self)

Undoes the effect of the ShadowCaster.

setGround(self, groundPath)

Specifies the part of the world that is to be considered the ground: this is the part onto which the rendered texture will be applied.

texXSize = 128

texYSize = 128

arbitraryShadow(node)

avatarShadow()

piratesAvatarShadow()