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Hm! If you look at the third pic across, it looks like he's got the same strange shadow ring near the eyes and nose as I noticed on the citywatch yesterday

 

The houseguard head is pretty fubar'd. The citywatch head should be fine, however. Can you post a picture of the problem somewhere?

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Is this just on the elite citywatch or have you also noticed it on the citywatch? I haven't done any work on the elite yet.

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Hm, it's hard to be sure. It might just be that I can't get the light in exactly the same spot, or -- take a close look -- is that the ring appearing on the end of his nose? Maybe a shadowmesh issue? I see the side of the coif doesn't cast on his cheek either. We can never expect these to be perfect of course, I just wonder if it's a simple problem.

 

http://208.49.149.118/thedarkmod/temp/eyes2.wmv

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Well, the shadowmesh is off, because the head mesh is built into the body. As I go through and adjust our AI, I'm removing that part of the mesh and adding unique shadowmeshes to the heads instead. But I haven't looked at the elite yet. I'll upload the new citywatch mesh this weekend and see if that fixes it.

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Sure, here's a closeup of the citywatch. Turns out it does move with his blinking, so maybe it's the eyelid(?):

 

http://208.49.149.118/thedarkmod/temp/eyeshadow.wmv

 

Would that mean that the material files for the heads are set to allow self shadows? Id chose to disable self shadowing. Probably for issues like that..and that the close up self shadows are so harsh.

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No, the visible mesh has shadows totally off. Any shadows on the AI are being cast only by the shadowmesh (though there may be some exceptions on individual AI I'm not aware of yet).

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