Toggle shadows,shaders (GLSL Material settings)

Game Engine Game Engine Support and Discussion
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Hello.
I really need to make a video graphics details menu for game,but i cant.
Blender wont toggle, wont disable shadows nor shaders using bge.render(setting,false/true).
To mention that i use a custom build (harmony) the only one thst actually works like it should, official blender release wont even export a runtime (pffft).

Thanks!

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not important.

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I think on many Games this would be the Opportunity for a Loading Screen. (However, several Minutes? nah…)

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not important

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Hello.
I really need to make a video graphics details menu for game,but i cant.
Blender wont toggle, wont disable shadows nor shaders using bge.render(setting,false/true).
To mention that i use a custom build (harmony) the only one thst actually works like it should, official blender release wont even export a runtime (pffft).

Thanks!

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Blender 2.61 Will export a runtime - i did the other day :smiley:

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it does exports but the runtime wont play, i got a error.

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What error did you get?

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I hope the Harmony branch will allow this.

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It doesn’t even matter, I don’t like the official build because of animation bugs and ugly shadows, I guess harmony won’t change material settings for now.
The error is is telling something about runtime (can’t remember, not at pc).

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Well, if the Harmony build’s solved the issue, then that’s good. I kind of like the shadows in the official build. They seem to have gotten better over time (seem a little softer than before). Hopefully the soft and alpha shadows build and the Harmony build will be merged with Trunk soon. I agree with LaH - it would be nice if it allowed you to change these lighting settings. I thought that you could already, but maybe not.

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The soft and alpha shadows(the old one) wont be implemented very soon due the performace, but VSM (harmony brach) are much better and faster, no alpha shadows tho.

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Even the official build wont turn on or off shaders,shadows etc via python, whats wrong here?

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Currently the game engine is still using a forward renderer. If you wish to turn off the shadows it would basically have to save the game’s state and restart the engine.

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Ah, so that means that all Python commands to change those things would require that you restarted the game to see the effects. Not a huge deal, since you can go back to the options menu after restart (and so not make it look like it just restarted the whole game).

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Before these branches it worked while in game… Blender 2.6 has some bugs I think…