A static Mesh casting a shadow onto a BSP brush
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I'm trying to get Unreal to cast a shadow onto the ground which is a BSP brush. any ideas what i'm not doing or have you had this problem before? a screen shot to help. and YES its is sitting just 1 inch above the ground.
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The top of the list being:
Check the object properties to make sure it casts shadows.
Check the light's properties to make sure they cast shadows.
Do shadows show up when you bake lighting?
If it's an interp/rigid body, you'll need to check this checkbox (to bring up this window, select the object and press F4 to see the "Actor Properties". There are several different options, but just to get it lit in the editor, check this option.
look...
And depending on the size of that bsp block you may need to up that lightmap res.
^ thats a good point - and as a side note, if I'm not mistaken, that value ranges from 1- (1024 maybe?), but for some reason 1 is better in quality.
Since its BSP and a BSP surface can be anything from a square centimeter to a square mile, you dont set absolute densities as that would create an awfull lot of extra work trying to get the resolutions concisent.