Grimrock

Hi
i don't see any bug report section so i post here.
I was using beach_thicket_broken to make my forest ground more interesting and i noticed a rendering/shadow (or maybe modelling) problem. Shadows of little branches are in wrong position (up, along z axis...or positionY), not lieing on ground.
Then i noticed same problem with beach_thicket_damaged. Maybe same problem on beach_thicket but there are too many branches to notice it.

Does seem odd after you mentioned it I looked a them in my map. Seems like they are not being lit or something. Noticed it before but it was such a small thing I barely paid it any heed. Now I'll never not notice it... :p

Those aren't the shadows, rather, there are some triangles on the model with normals that make them much darker than the other branches.

Pretty sure this effect is caused by 'doubleSided = true' in the material settings of the branch material. The branches are only a few triangles with a transparent texture on them. To make them show up on both sides you can either make the model with two sides, or, to save triangles, use a texture (material) with 'doubleSided = true'. The downside of this is that lighting is only calculated for the 'real' side (the one made of triangles), the other side will look like a copy of that side. That's why one side of the branches looks either much darker or brighter than it should look - because it uses the lighting of the other side.

Usually you only use double sided textures if it's hard to see the 'wrong' side anyway or if it's only a very minor detail people usually don't examine closely. And in the end no one noticed this until Granamir had a closer look at it, so I guess it wasn't the worst decision AH made.

^^ yea it toke me too some day placing thickets around to notice it...btw now i noticed and is first thing i look now, even if i don't want

Hmmm, must remedy this eventually.