budget CSM (if you set the shadows to look darker it looks better)

awesome sauce

Addon no longer works on my end and instead makes the shadows look like small puddles of darkness and also requiring the user to verify their game files to get the default shadows of the source engine back.

gotcha thanks

@cringeybabey, the mod's main purpose is to customize the vanilla shadows. This mod doesn't change how the shadows work. The only things that can't be achieved without this mod are the "Use Sun Direction" and "Enable Door Shadows" toggles.

so does this alter the shadows in any way by default? or does it just give you the option to customize shadows?

This is lame, i don't see a diffrence. Sorry i'm always a typo

@RapidFire57821, It’s not completely incompatible, but from what I remember the first person shadows from both mods don’t work together.

does this work with CSM

i cant figure out how to get the mod working at all

why the FUCK does my shadow turn into random ass FUCKING tables and shelves

why the FUCK does ts make the shadows look square and glitch sometimes and certain angles

Shadows don't even work right

@cold cash money kid Remember to have sv_cheats 1 enabled for the functionalities to fully take effect. Another thing to make the shadows look nicer is to change the blur around the shadow edges. I personally have the blur turned off entirely for sharp shadows, but setting it low gives a nice effect too. Another mod that aids this mod is the Life Mod Panel. Very useful.

How tf do you get this to work? It used to work great, now it just makes it worst.

@dr.bonk I have the same thing going on, except... I simply have them all downloaded; Real CSM, because it doesn't open natively as you can simply spawn its editor and it activates Real CSM when you WANT it, rather than being forced. Source Shadows, my default choice as it simply upgrades the default shadows to be even better than simple vanilla ones. Blend Light and Soft Lamps; both do extremely similar things, but one is more homebrewed than the other and is usually capable of being captured via poster without any of the extra steps needed for Soft Lamps. HOWEVER, Soft Lamps become much more accessible when combined with the 4k screenshot taker. It has built in options to use Anti-aliasing via Super-DOF with the click of a button when taking high-resolution screenshots, AND has a nifty option to manually set your FOV for images rather than having to mess with it via right-click like the normal camera.

Prevented crash! pRenderable is NULL

nah bro i have a shit pc and i was still at 125fps i dont know what you guys are talking about
but i switched to using Real CSM

This works but the shadows only come from my flashlight

player dynamic shadow appears as a missing texture rectangle
Material decals/rendershadow has bad reference count -164 when being bound (x2)

I am getting crashes when using..

the fps can be fixed with a few commands:
r_flashlightdepthres 512;
r_projectedtexture_filter 0.2;
mat_slopescaledepthbias_shadowmap 2;
mat_depthbias_shadowmap 0.000005;

this game has never crashed my pc wtf yall talkin about?

1 fps

If there's a way to have shadows not faze through walls this mod would b perfect.

@gorigo mine doesnt crash

de shadoes pass throue de wall

I DONT RECOMENDED THIS MOD, IT WILL CRASH GAME TO DESKTOP AFTER 5 MINUTES OF USE, IF YOU GET CTD THEN UNSUB FROM THIS ADDON AND YOUR GMOD WILL BE FINE

Its good, but keeps crashing my game every 5 minutes

way better then csm

The shadow settings keep not saving everytime i change and close the menu they reset to the default settings. only the map settings save

@potatogaming I can't say for blue, but I can safely assume that he looked into much of the lua scripting already available in regards to configuring the Source Engine's shadows, what goes into it, and simply decided to try and make things more configurable regarding the shadows, lighting, etc. Which he's done so successfully in my opinion.

How the hell did you make this mod resolutionblue?

W

@cayama0811 I'm not sure, but try playing with Life Mod alongside the Source Shadows addon, both have options to tweak the shading and such inside the game and I feel they actually work well together for my own purposes. I'm also fairly certain there's settings for multiple shadow origins being cast onto a single object, but I could very well be wrong.

its possible to have multiple shadows on the same object? it kinda looks weird when u have a lot of lights around u but theres only one that produces shadow so yeah

@ResolutionBlue Got it, thanks.

@PManPlays44, CSM is by all means a more realistic and complicated addon. CSM renders actual real time shadows on everything, but this is also why it's so taxing. If you want a more permanent solution to making shadows a bit better, Source Shadows is a more optimal option.

Which one is more realistic, this one or the Real CSM mod?

@ResolutionBlue i think the main shadow settings could save my preferences in a global scale along the overall map settings

Hmm i really wanted a option to save the global settings, i mostly want to disable the Forced dynamic shadows since it gives some bugs for me but doesn't save

@The Celestial, to save map settings, you need to hit a button that’s on the bottom of the menu. Normal shadow setting save automatically, but only if you quit through the menu. It won’t save if you forcefully close the game.
Hope this helps!

Keeps not saving my settings

Please add a setting to save the shadow settings permantly so you have a default shadow settings

nice

how do i make the shadows affect dynamic props?

@наГибатор3000 In order to remove residual addon files to entirely remove their functionality from your instance of Garry's Mod; please refer to the main menu's lower-right functionalities within Garry's Mod itself. There, there is a notification telling you of uninstalled addons that have residual files still leftover within your directory. There, there is a button that automatically removes any and all .gma files from your computer in the form of an automatic console command via button press. I hope this helps, my friend.

what should i do if i deleted this addon and i still have it

The map is finished! https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3478240689

sombras👍