So yeah, just noticed that- and it's really starting to bug me- i'm just one of those people, I suppose. In every single custom Halo: Combat Evolved campaign i've downloaded for Custom Edition, everything has lacked shadows. I used to have the original Combat Evolved installed, and I remember there being shadows under vehicles and characters. Anyone else noticed this or better, why its happening? I'd really love a campaign with shadows if thats possible. Just seems strange!

-Tom

Could be your graphics card.

From the main menu in Halo CE Go to your Settings > Video settings and be sure that "shadows" are turned on.

I have, first thing I did. I've looked at youtube playthroughs of the halo custom edition campaign playthroughs and it seems to be the case with every single video I've seen. Its NOT the case when watching the halo combat evolved (original) campaign. Have you guys got shadows on your Custom Edition Campaigns?

Of course we have shadows,


You should take a picture of what you mean when you don't have shadows.

You do? Because every single video on youtube of a single-player campaign doesn''t seem to have them, either. I'll show you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aILM-ffkQqo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-eZKC6moZs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQsB2PxPcVw

None have shadows, none. Mine don't either, and I don't think its their settings as multiplayer videos all seem to have shadows. Please post me a screenshot of your games when playing through the singleplayer campaign WITH shadows, please. I haven't seen a Custom Edition campaign with shadows yet, but every Combat Evolved video I see DOES have shadows.

Shadows are visible for me. (All images from CE.)



Edited by Co1t3r on Feb 2, 2012 at 07:24 PM

He meant shadows in Halo CE campaign.

I just had a look, and I realized that you're right; there are no shadows in CE campaign. This is something I've actually overlooked all these years. And what do you know, they're visible in PC. :/

I get shadows on Lumoria ( a custom single player campaign).

That is quite odd, it appears fine for me in custom sp maps, but actually never noticed that it does not appear in single player campaigns! Maybe check cmt spv3, looks like it works for them..

Could it be that the creators of Lumoria and CMT added shadows, and the authors of smaller campaigns had simply not noticed or forgot about shadows?

Glad I at least made people aware of it! Its very strange indeed. Tell me if you ever find a Combat Evolved campaign that DOES have shadows, i'm a very petty person who always gets annoyed by little things like that, silly I know. Ive noticed Lumoria does have shadows, so yeah, maybe people who ported over the original campaign just overlooked shadow implementation. Still though, really odd how all other maps seem to have it- you'd think there would be at least one original campaign out there that did have shadows, too.



Also, could anyone direct me to the CMT campaign that does have shadows? I can't seem to find it, v2 has the same issue as any other and v3 isn't out yet?
Edited by TomDuffus on Feb 3, 2012 at 10:47 AM

You can't really just "add" shadows in (there normally there by default). It's probably something due to corrupt tags or something to do with collision models after re extracting tags, I don't really know for sure.

I dont think it'd be too hard. Not when completely custom singleplayer maps have them, like Lumoria. I'm sure theres a good reason for it, or not every single original-campaign map would be lacking them, but i'll bet its still something that people could get around without huge issues. I dont know enough about it, but i'd be suprised if it was an impossible task. But yeah, if anyone knows an original campaign map that does have shadows, please let me know!