Removing Unit Shadows?

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Removing Unit Shadows?

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Is there a way to remove the shadows generated by the units ingame? If so, how do I go about accomplishing this?
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As long as you didn't make any lights then you shouldn't have unit shadows in the first place (the top ambient light and bottom ambient light don't matter).
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I'm afraid I don't understand your answer...

When I said "units" I meant ingame characters like the clone trooper, for example. I want to remove the shadows that the unit casts on the ground on stock maps.

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There's a droppdown list for shadows in the graphics options, high, low, and off.
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I want to completely remove the unit shadows from the game. In that even if the shadow option is turned to high, clone troopers and such won't generate a shadow.
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you would hve to edit the model (maybe via hexediting) to get rid of the shadowvolume
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Commander_Fett wrote:There's a droppdown list for shadows in the graphics options, high, low, and off.
EDIT: Oops, missed what you were saying.
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DarthD.U.C.K. wrote:you would hve to edit the model (maybe via hexediting) to get rid of the shadowvolume
Whereabouts could I find the model I need to edit?
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BF2_ModTools\assets\sides\(sidename)\msh
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Under a unit's .msh file right? Because I searched for "shadowvolume" and couldn't find it...
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ist inside the msh and normally ist called sv_something
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