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By Murano on Nov 29, 2009 • Autogenerate Sunshadows Tutorial
The new version of TSR Workshop offers a great feature to autogenerate sunshadows. TSRW is the first tool which can make them look correctly ingame.
1. Select Shadow Mesh
As you can see, the sunshadow mesh isn't yet adjusted.
Change to the mesh tab where you've previously imported the high and the low detail mesh. From the dropdown menu select Shadow high level of detail.
2. Press Generate Shadow Mesh Button
The Generate shadow mesh button 
almost next to the dropdown menu should now become active.
Click it to open the Select MLOD window. You have to tell TSR Workshop what should be all included in this shadow mesh from the High level of detail mesh. What generally should be excluded is the groundshadow mesh (you can recognize it on the low vertices/faces count). When you're done selecting the meshes, click on OK.
3. Done
The newly generated sunshadow should now become visible in the 3D Preview. If not, make sure you are in the correct LOD mode 
and have sunshadows showing activated 
. In the Mesh Tab you've also got a rotation slider available so you can check how the sunshadow looks from different angles.
4. Repeat for Low LOD
Now repeat step 1 and 2 for the Shadow low level of detail. This time you choose the meshes from the Low level of detail mesh in the Select MLOD dialog.
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14 Comment(s) posted so far
On Dec 15, 2009 katana wrote:
Very cool.
On Jan 7, 2010 sailfindragon wrote:
Fantastic
On Feb 28, 2010 sims_reality wrote:
This is simply wonderful. Now I can go 'shadowing' Yai!
On Mar 8, 2010 BlackSweety wrote:
This helped a lot!!! Very cool!
On May 28, 2010 haiduong wrote:
Brilliant, thank you so much.
On Aug 8, 2010 murfeel wrote:
Thanks! I was wondering what that button was! pfft!
On May 25, 2011 Semi3333 wrote:
I can't understand
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On Jun 20, 2011 SimonettaC wrote:
Thank you so much for this, I feel the same as Murfeel, never knew what that button was for, now I do. Sorry it has took me so long to thank you.
On Jul 17, 2011 liuzhuolinxiaofei wrote:
what software should we use ?
On Aug 12, 2011 Autumness wrote:
all of this is so confusing, i didn't do good in my photoshop class
but i really want to learn how to do this so... :/
On Sep 4, 2011 kalocokat129 wrote:
where do we creat objects?!?! i so lostst .....
On Nov 3, 2011 naus allien wrote:
What about if my shadow mesh has two groups by default? I tried to delete a group and then autogenerate the sun shadow, but the aplication crashes in that moment.
On Dec 22, 2011 Majuchan wrote:
Thanks for this! =3
On Feb 5, 2012 Simmie_50 wrote:
nice