Objects and trees to cast real time shadows on terrain

Hello, i am new here, and i think this engine is amazing, but i have a question; how the hell i can enable objects and trees to cast real time shadows on terrain? im a 3d artist not a game developer or a coder, sorry if this question was already ask and solved,

 

Here's a thread from last week that deals with the same issue. If this doesn't clear things up for you though feel free to ask further questions.

http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=23909

 

Tanks for your reply, i read all on that topic, but i still cant' get it :?
i do everything that, and nothing!

what i want is enable all real time shadows on the terrain including the objects and trees shadows

is there an step by step tutorial about this that i can read,

sorry but this engine is new to me, i liked but i am on the beginning of the learning curve.
again, sorry for the noob here, and tanks for your time :wink:

 

I have to ask whether or not you're using Unity Pro... dynamic shadows are not available in Unity Indie.

If you're using Pro then I'll make a real simple example scene that you can pick apart.

 

i have the pro version, i realy appreciate your help tanks again!

 

1. On the Terrain object inspector, check "Cast Shadows." and set lighting to pixel. (If you have calculated a lightmap, which you should, then it will use the lightmap at a distance).

2. On the DIRECTIONAL light in your scene, set the render mode to pixel. Set the shadow type to hard or soft. Set the resolution to whatever your video card can handle. You may have to adjust the other settings as well.

3. Make sure that other mesh-based objects have "cast and receive shadows" checked on them.

 

tanks for you explanation i will try that

 

It work! tanks!

i make a test on the island Demo and it work fine, but wen i make a new project and a new terrain it didn't work so well, so, i must calculate the lightmap first? and then set the light to pixel?

tanks again, your help was precious!

 

Yes you have to calculate a lightmap manually at least once.

 

Yes, tanks it work very well, and now i understand the logic of lightmap! 8)

Another question, and the grass? have no shadow? well i try everything... i simply cannot make grass cast real time shadows on the terrain!

 

Unfortunately grass and detail meshes are not affected by lights/shadows at the moment. They are affected by the lightmap though. Hopefully that will be fixed in the not too distant future.

 

Well, i think is a "must have"

for now, not having shadows on the grass is not a real problem for me, i can paint the shadows by hand, im working on a architecture project and the garden is a small garden with low grass, so...
:wink:

 

This helped me out a lot as well! One question I have, though, is how do you adjust when the shadows are drawn?

 

Shadow rendering is taken from the quality settings if the light is set to use the quality settings.

 

So would that explain the difference in the picture? All I did was zoom in on the scene.

I am a beginner with Unity. Only been working with it for a couple weeks.

 

Yes. The shadows show up at the distance set in the quality and lighting settings. You have to back the shadows into the lightmap (see wiki) for them to show up at a distance.

 

the only way to get the dynamic tree shadow back once you have done a lightmap and changed your mind is to clear all lightmaps...