Need some help with shadows

Pearl

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Nov 29, 2015
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How do you fix this issue?

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Pearl

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Nov 29, 2015
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Valve map's don't disable shadows on there tracks... I was wanting to know how they did it.

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sooshey

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Valve map's don't disable shadows on there tracks... I was wanting to know how they did it.
That's because they used a lengthy VRAD process to make their track shadows look good. Unfortunately this also makes the compile take an absurdly long time. So for maps in development, disabling track shadows works for the time being, allowing you to do faster compiles as you constantly edit the map. This thread explains how to remove the shadows (the long way) if you want to know.
 

henke37

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The "lengthy VRAD process" is nothing more than setting the -StaticPropPolys flag when running vrad. I don't think it's particularly expensive.