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Products Support => GSX Support FSX/P3D => Topic started by: alpet on May 23, 2020, 08:45:29 pm

Title: Passengers shadows on ground during boarding by jetway
Post by: alpet on May 23, 2020, 08:45:29 pm

Hello there,

I just bought GSX2 expansion and got this bug with shadows (see attached image). Obviously there should be no shadows of passengers inside jetway if the jetway is enclosed?

Title: Re: Passengers shadows on ground during boarding by jetway
Post by: virtuali on May 27, 2020, 02:08:13 pm

That's not a GSX bug, of course. It's a limitation of the P3D graphic engine, that doesn't support the concept of polygon meshes that can block either shadows or dynamic lighting. For example, if you place a dynamic light on the 2nd floor of a building, it will lit the 1st floor too, and up to the ground.

If we flagged the passengers to not cast shadows, they will never cast shadows, even when they should, for example when walking on the apron so, users would see that as a GSX bug to. Either way, we can't really fix it within the limitations of the sim graphic engine.

Title: Re: Passengers shadows on ground during boarding by jetway
Post by: alpet on May 29, 2020, 05:12:38 pm

Thank you, all noted!