'cause shadows are my fetish/pet peeve...Originally Posted by Hoel
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I am not too sure about how this would be done ('cause I have yet to reach the point of knowing how to drop shadows on the comp), but the tower shadows on the curtain wall should be shorter than the shadows on the grass. Shadows are longer the greater the relative height difference is between the surface and the object casting it.
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I have been looking at some maps and been trying to figure if the drop shadow function takes things like this into account. I think that it would require some sort of 3D model in order to do this, but was wondering if there are other ways. Two or more shadow layers?
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Is it possible in CC3 to have an invisible object cast a shadow? Or maybe a mask that hides the object? Say you have a round tower and the program makes all shadows the same length...if you can have an invisible object then just use another tower offset. Just an inquiry/thought.
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Yes, you would need two layers for the shadows unless you wanted to paint them in. At least then you can use the angle setting of the shadow to approximate the proper shadow length.
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I'm pretty sure you can make an "invisible" symbol by creating a PNG with just an alpha channel, but I don't think this can cast a shadow. However, I haven't ever tried that.
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I think that has to be done in 3d...
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