Hi
I’m trying to setup my character for first person arms + shadows from second, full body mesh but the shadow casting with ‘world space representation’ doesn’t seem to work in my project (it was upgraded from older version to newest). when adding first person template it also doesn’t work but it does work with in brand new 5.7.2 project and fps template.
so the question is, does anybody know what are exact rendering options required to have those shadows working?
I think you’re looking for this option as it’s changed, click self or your first person mesh and you’ll see this option for control the shadow casting
it doesn’t work in my project. the fps template has this already set up and it works like advertised in fresh new project but not in mine (even when I import and run same template in it) so I’d like to know what’s going on
It is a bit tricky but you can get your first person mesh to use a shadow by this setting and setting it to “none”.
Edit: Note it’s the first person mesh that’s casting the shadow and the character mesh that is doing the animation
my first person mesh is just arms and it’s not supposed to cast a shadow
Hi there! I’ve actually been messing around with this too. Have you found any solutions? My best fix so far is enabling either HWRT Shadows or Nanite. Nothing else is working for me, it’s the only way I can get shadows from the world representation mesh.
unfortunately not, but thanks to your post I’ve verified that indeed without nanite it doesn’t work and my project has it turned off. oh well.
Hey, so I looked at it some more. If you don’t mind or have a solution for keeping a specific mesh from casting shadows on another, you can duplicate your world rep meshes and set first person primitive type to none and set owner no see, owner only see, and cast hidden shadows to true on the client. You could of course set up a second lighting channel, but for performance concerns it’s honestly probably comparable to nanite, so not worth doing that…
