[osg-users] ShadowMap problem...

[Wyatt Earp]

Yes this all helps greatly.. I really appreciate the help you have provided.
Thanks,
W

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[mailto:osg-users-bounces at lists.openscenegraph.org] On Behalf Of
Jean-Sébastien Guay
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 8:04 AM
To: OpenSceneGraph Users
Subject: Re: [osg-users] ShadowMap problem...

Hi Wyatt,

> When I have one or two objects, say the size of a car, or truck, only.
The
> shadow map looks correct. But when I add my terrain which is approximately
x
> = 5100 by y = 5100, I no longer see the car/truck shadows on the shadow
map.
> 
> Similarly, if I increase the length and width of the bottom box in the
> osgShadow example, I no longer see the other objects in the shadow map.
> 
> I assume I am running into some shadow map texture resolution limit or
> something.  What is going on?

Yep, Most probable. osgShadow::ShadowMap can't help you there, but there 
are a few things you can do to mitigate the problem.

* First, don't set your terrain to cast shadow (if it's mostly flat 
you'd never see its shadow anyways)
* Second, make sure all the objects you set to cast shadow are in a 
small area. If an object leaves the area of focus, remove its cast 
shadow bit from its node mask.
* Third, increase the shadow map resolution as much as you can (on some 
cards, 4096x4096 is the biggest you can go, on some others it's 2048x2048)

But if you want better results, switch to one of the ViewDependentShadow 
techniques that are in OSG 2.8+ (for example 
osgShadow::LightSpacePerspectiveShadowMap). These will consider the 
camera's view volume and only calculate shadows for this area 
automatically, so if you're looking at a relatively small portion of 
your scene it will give much better results. Though they have some 
artifacts in some situations too... Nothing is perfect, it's always a 
trade-off.

> My shadow map is looking mostly correct now after making changes to light
> type, position etc.  However shadows are not appearing in the final
> rendering.  The app I am trying to add shadow mapping to uses textures
bound
> to tex units 0-3.  I noticed in the ShadowMap class there were methods for
> setting the texture unit and wondered if this possibly   why I am not
seeing
> the shadows.  That is, is my use of tex units 0-3 conflicting with
> ShadowMaps use of texture units and should I reassign one or the others
> texture units?

Most probably, ShadowMap uses texture unit 1 by default for the shadow 
map. Call osgShadow::ShadowMap::setTextureUnit() to set the texture unit 
you want the shadow map to use (for example 4, or 7 to give yourself 
some breathing room), and use that same texture unit in your shadow 
shaders when you get to the point of generating texture coordinates and 
doing the shadow lookup too. There's a similar method in 
osgShadow::LightSpacePerspectiveShadowMap.

Hope this helps,

J-S
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