Any way of getting shadows in Unity Indie

Thanks a lot, I'm planning to make monsters run across the walls and throw large shadows so I think I definitely need dynamic shadows. You gave a lot of detail so i'm going to do some further research into your suggested methods. Thanks again.

Hmmm. Throw large shadows as projectiles? I would recommend a particle system in that case. Or do you mean it as in casting large shadows? Bear in $$anonymous$$d that shadows are made large by proximity to the light source. Something you could try is a shadow projector which changes fieldOfView based on your proximity to the light and rotation based on direction to the light source. Of course that won't adjust if your shadow casters turn such that the shadow doesn't properly represent their contours. To compensate, you might have an animated texture advanced based on orientation, but that's a pain.

I have already been trying to figure out a way of making the projector field of view adjust as the distance changes just with a plain sphere but I haven't managed to get very far. I was trying to find the extents and make them the use them to adjust the field of view but it didn't work (I'm not that great at scripting but getting better) I will continue adjusting my scripts for this technique if you think it might work.

Just out of interest is there no way of using raycasting to say for example: If raycast hits, allow light to hit this surface if raycast is blocked by something don't light up

A raycast would be a fairly costly way to do it as you would have to do it for every light and every shadow projector. A cheaper way would be defining a simple volume for the lights, adding the projecting objects when they enter the volume and removing them when they leave. Updating the projector would be done based on a simple subtraction of the positions of the two objects. The magnitude or magnitude squared of this result can be used to deter$$anonymous$$e distance, and this result is the direction to cast the shadow.