agaricus5
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I have just noticed... when you place a wall in the shadow of the "special 2x2 object, the shadow disappears, and is replaced with the wall. I know it's really cosmetic and needs a few extra tiles per tileset, but after the beta, will it be possible to have the shadows "add" up rather than be replaced?

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Snicker
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I was kind of wondering the same thing about monsters. If it would be possible to get monsters (at least spiders) to have those, then certain puzzles would be a lot more challenging

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agaricus5 wrote:
I have just noticed... when you place a wall in the shadow of the "special 2x2 object, the shadow disappears, and is replaced with the wall. I know it's really cosmetic and needs a few extra tiles per tileset, but after the beta, will it be possible to have the shadows "add" up rather than be replaced?

There are plans to work on this in a future release.

-Erik

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Mattcrampy
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As I understand it, the idea is to remove the shadow tiles and have DROD apply shadows itself. As a side project, this overhaul may allow us to use non-uniform tiles (eg, some tiles have cracks). I have this on one tileset on 1.5, just experimenting, but it looks really bad as it's applied to shadowed tiles.

Matt

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