ShadowCaster

Tile set whose tiles darken the cells below them with a cliff shadow.

Specification

Applies to: tile controls
File: theater control file
Section: [<TileSet ID>]
Value: boolean
When omitted: no

A set with ShadowCaster=yes casts cliff shadows only if ShadowTiles is also non-zero. With ShadowTiles at 0, no tile of the set casts anything, but the set still counts toward the theater’s limit of five shadow-casting sets.

The shadows come from a fixed engine table, not from the set’s artwork. A tile’s position in the set, counted from 0, selects its entry. Only positions 20 through 32 have a shadow, so the 21st through 33rd tiles are the ones that cast. Each draws one frame of the shared C_SHADOW.SHP shape, and only on the cell that shows the sub-tile its entry names. Sub-tiles number a tile’s cells row by row, starting from 0 at the top left.

Position	`C_SHADOW.SHP` frame	Sub-tile
20	1st	0
21	1st	0
22	2nd	1
23	3rd	1
24	4th	1
25	5th	0
26	6th	0
27	7th	1
28	8th	0
29	9th	0
30	10th	1
31	11th	1
32	12th	0

A tile at positions 20 through 32 also shades a fixed group of nearby cells. Infantry and vehicles standing on the ground in those cells are drawn darker.

A flagged set’s tiles that are also among the first ten pieces of SlopeSetPieces or SlopeSetPieces2 take their shadow from a separate slope table instead.

[TileSet0010]        ; example cliff set
SetName=Cliffs
FileName=CLIFF
TilesInSet=40
ShadowCaster=yes
ShadowTiles=40

See also — ShadowTiles, TilesInSet