Question Preventing shadows?

[Saturn V]

Hello all-

I have an aircraft carrier with the deck at "ground" level, and a spacecraft which has splashed down level with the bottom of the ship. So far, everything looks good, but is there a way to prevent the recovery helicopter (a spacecraft3 setup) from casting a shadow? It falls at "ground" level and from most perspectives, appears to be floating above the spacecraft it's recovering.

Any solutions?

 

[jinglesassy]

in the orbiter launchpad go into visual effects and uncheck vessel shadows

 

[TSPenguin]

That would disable all shadows. Which is not the purpose of this excercise.
I believe Saturn V is looking for a way to specificaly disable the shadow for the helicopter.

 

[Saturn V]

Yes, I was wondering if there was a way to eliminate shadows from one specific vessel, but it's not a deal-breaker if not.

 

[ar81]

If I am correct, if you add your carrier as a surface base, I kind of remember there was a way to configure the mesh so it did not project shadows. It was long ago, so I am not sure if it was exactly that. Anyway I might tell you to check how surface bases parameters are configured for meshes.

 

[Saturn V]

Yes, you're right. You can specify "shadows" or "undershadows" in the MESH section of the cfg file for the base, which I did and it looks fine. The problem is getting rid of the helicopter's shadow. That has to remain a vessel and there doesn't seem to be a way to eliminate those shadows. As I said, it's not that big a deal either way. Nice if I can do it, not losing sleep over it if I can't.

 

[Hielor]

Yes, you're right. You can specify "shadows" or "undershadows" in the MESH section of the cfg file for the base, which I did and it looks fine. The problem is getting rid of the helicopter's shadow. That has to remain a vessel and there doesn't seem to be a way to eliminate those shadows. As I said, it's not that big a deal either way. Nice if I can do it, not losing sleep over it if I can't.

For all mesh groups in the helicopter's mesh, add
FLAG 1
in the mesh group's header, before the GEOM section.

Source: 3dmodel.pdf in the Orbiter sdk, page 7

 

[Saturn V]

Ah! Very Good. I'll have to try that. Thank you.