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Can you add screenshots to help us understand the problem?
shadows is a pretty large concept in a lighting engine. be more precise please.

Shadows of existing (unchanged) maps?

I have the same problem since last week.

On the maps some surfaces are completely black. If u stand in them ur practically invisible.
Ive had this problem before a couple of months ago. Then it was fixed, now its back.

So its probably the same solution as before. " Rerendering of the shadows " or something? I cant remember.
Anyways, its a server issue right? Nothing the client can do? Or am i wrong?

dreammyw0w wrote:" Rerendering of the shadows " or something? I cant remember.
Anyways, its a server issue right? Nothing the client can do? Or am i wrong?

That's right, shadows must be computed again. Server hosters can do it themselves or they have to find updated version but the client can't do anything about it.

The_Big_Boo wrote: the client can't do anything about it.

But I hope I can recompute the lightmaps for myself to have those shadow bugs gone just on my side?

The_Big_Boo wrote:

dreammyw0w wrote:" Rerendering of the shadows " or something? I cant remember.
Anyways, its a server issue right? Nothing the client can do? Or am i wrong?

That's right, shadows must be computed again. Server hosters can do it themselves or they have to find updated version but the client can't do anything about it.

Indeed some players computed there shadows and uploaded new versions ( like me )
Otherwise do a batch shadow computing on your maps

I actually computed the lightmaps again for all the major Elite and Joust maps, but still get those black patches on servers.