Disabling shadow casting on terrain trees

In Unity 4 I used to be able to stop the terrain trees from casting shadows by unchecking "cast shadows" on the terrain settings. Now in Unity 5 this doesn't work. Any ideas how to disable them?

 

Changing the Cast Shadows parameter should fix your problem. Can you send us a screenshot showing exactly what you're talking about? I've been using this parameter just fine in Unity 5.

 

As you can see, even with cast shadows off for the terrain and the tree prefab, it's still casting shadows. Interestingly, when I place the tree manually instead of through the terrain system, it behaves properly.





I tested it with a Speedtree and that lets you turn shadows on and off properly. I also tested it with a regular mesh and that won't let you turn shadows off either, so it seems to be a problem with tree-creator and mesh trees, but not speedtrees.

 

anyone able to fix this?

 

This still seems to be a problem, it kills performance on mobile, but the only way to stop it is to disable shadows through the lights, so nothing has a shadow.

 

Was there ever a proper fix for this?

 

In case this is still an issue for anyone, we solved it by using prefabs rather than straight meshes, and in the prefabs we set shadowcasting to be off.

 

This may seem a litter overly complicated, but you can remove received shadows yourself by making a custom shader or editing the built-in terrain shaders. I did this in a custom toon shader no problem. Strange there is no option in the standard terrain settings to turn of received shadows.

 

If anyone experiences this in 2023, all you need to do is find the prefab you added to the terrain brushes and set the shadows to off