stencil shadows don't work

Only texture shadow works in my program, neither SHADOWTYPE_STENCIL_MODULATIVE nor SHADOWTYPE_STENCIL_ADDITIVE works! I have to use stencil shadows coz texture shadow looks terrible in the scene.


I got a runtime error when using any stencil shadows. "...exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

the Ogre.log file is

18:36:57: Creating resource group General
18:36:57: Creating resource group Internal
18:36:57: Creating resource group Autodetect
18:36:57: Registering ResourceManager for type Material
18:36:57: Registering ResourceManager for type Mesh
18:36:57: Registering ResourceManager for type Skeleton
18:36:57: MovableObjectFactory for type 'ParticleSystem' registered.
18:36:57: Loading library OgrePlatform.dll
18:36:57: OverlayElementFactory for type Panel registered.
18:36:57: OverlayElementFactory for type BorderPanel registered.
18:36:57: OverlayElementFactory for type TextArea registered.
18:36:57: Registering ResourceManager for type Font
18:36:57: ArchiveFactory for archive type FileSystem registered.
18:36:57: ArchiveFactory for archive type Zip registered.
18:36:57: DevIL version: Developer's Image Library (DevIL) 1.6.7 Oct 28 2005
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18:36:57: MovableObjectFactory for type 'Light' registered.
18:36:57: MovableObjectFactory for type 'BillboardSet' registered.
18:36:57: MovableObjectFactory for type 'ManualObject' registered.
18:36:57: MovableObjectFactory for type 'BillboardChain' registered.
18:36:57: MovableObjectFactory for type 'RibbonTrail' registered.
18:36:57: Loading library .\RenderSystem_Direct3D9
18:36:57: D3D9 : Direct3D9 Rendering Subsystem created.
18:36:57: D3D9: Driver Detection Starts
18:36:57: D3D9: Driver Detection Ends
18:36:57: Loading library .\RenderSystem_GL
18:36:57: OpenGL Rendering Subsystem created.
18:36:57: Loading library .\Plugin_ParticleFX
18:36:57: Particle Emitter Type 'Point' registered
18:36:57: Particle Emitter Type 'Box' registered
18:36:57: Particle Emitter Type 'Ellipsoid' registered
18:36:57: Particle Emitter Type 'Cylinder' registered
18:36:57: Particle Emitter Type 'Ring' registered
18:36:57: Particle Emitter Type 'HollowEllipsoid' registered
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18:36:57: Particle Affector Type 'ColourFader' registered
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18:36:57: Particle Affector Type 'DeflectorPlane' registered
18:36:57: Loading library .\Plugin_BSPSceneManager
18:36:57: Registering ResourceManager for type BspLevel
18:36:57: Loading library .\Plugin_OctreeSceneManager
18:36:57: Loading library .\Plugin_CgProgramManager
18:36:57: *-*-* OGRE Initialising
18:36:57: *-*-* Version 1.2.2 (Dagon)
18:36:57: Creating resource group Bootstrap
18:36:57: Added resource location '../Media/overlays/' of type 'FileSystem' to resource group 'Bootstrap'
18:36:57: Added resource location '../Media/' of type 'FileSystem' to resource group 'General'
18:36:57: Added resource location '../Media/images/' of type 'FileSystem' to resource group 'General'
18:36:57: Added resource location '../Media/materials/' of type 'FileSystem' to resource group 'General'
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18:36:57: Added resource location '../Media/particles/' of type 'FileSystem' to resource group 'General'
18:36:57: Added resource location '../Media/315/' of type 'FileSystem' to resource group 'General'
18:36:57: Added resource location 'C:/ogrenew/Animism/Media/materials/temp' of type 'FileSystem' to resource group 'General'
18:36:57: Added resource location 'C:/ogrenew/Animism/Media/materials/textures' of type 'FileSystem' to resource group 'General'
18:36:57: D3D9 : RenderSystem Option: Allow NVPerfHUD = No
18:36:57: D3D9 : RenderSystem Option: Anti aliasing = None
18:36:57: D3D9 : RenderSystem Option: Floating-point mode = Fastest
18:36:57: D3D9 : RenderSystem Option: Full Screen = Yes
18:36:57: D3D9 : RenderSystem Option: Rendering Device = NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400
18:36:57: D3D9 : RenderSystem Option: VSync = No
18:36:57: D3D9 : RenderSystem Option: Video Mode = 1280 x 1024 @ 32-bit colour
18:36:58: D3D9 : Subsystem Initialising
18:36:58: D3D9RenderSystem::createRenderWindow "Catching falling oranges", 1280x1024 fullscreen miscParams: FSAA=0 FSAAQuality=0 colourDepth=32 useNVPerfHUD=false vsync=false
18:36:58: D3D9 : Created D3D9 Rendering Window 'Catching falling oranges' : 1280x1024, 32bpp
18:36:58: Registering ResourceManager for type Texture
18:36:58: Registering ResourceManager for type GpuProgram
18:36:58: RenderSystem capabilities
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18:36:58: * Texture blending: yes
18:36:58: * Anisotropic texture filtering: yes
18:36:58: * Dot product texture operation: yes
18:36:58: * Cube mapping: yes
18:36:58: * Hardware stencil buffer: yes
18:36:58: - Stencil depth: 8
18:36:58: - Two sided stencil support: no
18:36:58: - Wrap stencil values: yes
18:36:58: * Hardware vertex / index buffers: yes
18:36:58: * Vertex programs: no
18:36:58: * Fragment programs: no
18:36:58: * Texture Compression: yes
18:36:58: - DXT: yes
18:36:58: - VTC: no
18:36:58: * Scissor Rectangle: yes
18:36:58: * Hardware Occlusion Query: no
18:36:58: * User clip planes: no
18:36:58: * VET_UBYTE4 vertex element type: no
18:36:58: * Infinite far plane projection: no
18:36:58: * Hardware render-to-texture: yes
18:36:58: * Floating point textures: no
18:36:58: * Non-power-of-two textures: yes
18:36:58: * Volume textures: no
18:36:58: * Multiple Render Targets: 1
18:36:58: * Point Sprites: yes
18:36:58: * Extended point parameters: yes
18:36:58: * Max Point Size: 64
18:36:58: ***************************************
18:36:58: *** D3D9 : Subsystem Initialised OK ***
18:36:58: ***************************************
18:36:58: ResourceBackgroundQueue - threading disabled
18:36:58: Particle Renderer Type 'billboard' registered
18:36:58: Creating viewport on target 'Catching falling oranges', rendering from camera 'PlayerCam', relative dimensions L: 0.00 T: 0.00 W: 1.00 H: 1.00 ZOrder: 0
18:36:58: Viewport for camera 'PlayerCam', actual dimensions L: 0 T: 0 W: 1280 H: 1024
18:36:58: Parsing scripts for resource group Autodetect
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18:36:58: Parsing script OgreCore.material
18:36:58: Parsing script OgreProfiler.material
18:36:58: Parsing script Ogre.fontdef
18:36:58: Parsing script OgreDebugPanel.overlay
18:36:58: Texture: nx.gui.center.png: Loading 1 faces(PF_A8B8G8R8,16x16x1) with hardware generated mipmaps from Image. Internal format is PF_A8R8G8B8,16x16x1.
18:36:58: Font TrebuchetMSBoldusing texture size 512x512
18:36:58: Info: Freetype returned null for character 160 in font TrebuchetMSBold
18:36:58: Texture: TrebuchetMSBoldTexture: Loading 1 faces(PF_BYTE_LA,512x512x1) with 0 generated mipmaps from Image. Internal format is PF_A8R8G8B8,512x512x1.
18:36:58: Bad element attribute line: 'right 2' for element nx.gui.logo in overlay Core/DebugOverlay
18:36:58: Texture: nx.gui.logo.png: Loading 1 faces(PF_A8B8G8R8,64x64x1) with hardware generated mipmaps from Image. Internal format is PF_A8R8G8B8,64x64x1.
18:36:58: Bad element attribute line: 'right 2' for element nx.gui.instructions in overlay Core/DebugOverlay
18:36:58: D3D9 : ***** Dimensions altered by the render system
18:36:58: D3D9 : ***** Source image dimensions : 196x196
18:36:58: D3D9 : ***** Texture dimensions : 256x256
18:36:58: Texture: controls1.png: Loading 1 faces(PF_A8B8G8R8,196x196x1) with 8 generated mipmaps from Image. Internal format is PF_A8R8G8B8,256x256x1.
18:36:58: Parsing script OgreLoadingPanel.overlay
18:36:58: Texture: New_Ogre_Border_Center.png: Loading 1 faces(PF_A8B8G8R8,256x128x1) with hardware generated mipmaps from Image. Internal format is PF_A8R8G8B8,256x128x1.
18:36:58: Texture: New_Ogre_Border.png: Loading 1 faces(PF_A8B8G8R8,256x256x1) with hardware generated mipmaps from Image. Internal format is PF_A8R8G8B8,256x256x1.
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18:36:58: Parsing script Examples.program
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18:36:58: Parsing script Eunice.material
18:36:58: Parsing script heightmap.material
18:36:58: Parsing script nx.grid.material
18:36:58: Parsing script nx.particles.material
18:36:58: Parsing script nx.shapes.material
18:36:58: Error in material nx.raycaster at line 116 of nx.shapes.material: Bad specular attribute, wrong number of parameters (expected 2, 4 or 5)
18:36:58: Error in material nx.crosshair at line 131 of nx.shapes.material: Bad specular attribute, wrong number of parameters (expected 2, 4 or 5)
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18:36:58: Win32Input8: DirectInput Activation Starts
18:36:58: Win32Input8: Establishing keyboard input.
18:36:58: Win32Input8: Keyboard input established.
18:36:58: Win32Input8: Initializing mouse input in immediate mode.
18:36:58: Win32Input8: Mouse input in immediate mode initialized.
18:36:58: Win32Input8: DirectInput OK.
18:36:58: Texture: nx.grid.floor.png: Loading 1 faces(PF_A8B8G8R8,512x512x1) with hardware generated mipmaps from Image. Internal format is PF_A8R8G8B8,512x512x1.
18:36:58: [NxOgre] NxOgre Log started.
18:36:58: [NxOgre] Starting up PhysX SDK
18:36:59: [NxOgre] Started.
18:36:59: [NxOgre] Creating scene 'Main'.
18:36:59: Texture: clouds.jpg: Loading 1 faces(PF_B8G8R8,256x256x1) with hardware generated mipmaps from Image. Internal format is PF_X8R8G8B8,256x256x1.
18:36:59: Mesh: Loading orange.1m.mesh.
18:36:59: D3D9 : ***** Dimensions altered by the render system
18:36:59: D3D9 : ***** Source image dimensions : 543x545
18:36:59: D3D9 : ***** Texture dimensions : 1024x1024
18:36:59: Texture: OrangeTex.jpg: Loading 1 faces(PF_B8G8R8,543x545x1) with 10 generated mipmaps from Image. Internal format is PF_X8R8G8B8,1024x1024x1.
18:36:59: Mesh: Loading basket.mesh.
18:36:59: Texture: basket.tga: Loading 1 faces(PF_R8G8B8,256x256x1) with hardware generated mipmaps from Image. Internal format is PF_X8R8G8B8,256x256x1.
18:36:59: Mesh: Loading tree.mesh.
18:36:59: Texture: spot_shadow_fade.png: Loading 1 faces(PF_B8G8R8,128x128x1) with hardware generated mipmaps from Image. Internal format is PF_X8R8G8B8,128x128x1.


The piece of code related to this is

mSceneMgr->setAmbientLight(ColourValue(0, 0, 0)); //0.25, 0.25, 0.25));
mSceneMgr->setShadowTechnique(SHADOWTYPE_STENCIL_MODULATIVE); // SHADOWTYPE_TEXTURE_MODULATIVE
//mSceneMgr->setShadowTextureSize(1024);

Light* mSunLight = mSceneMgr->createLight("SunLight");
mSunLight->setType( Light::LT_POINT );
mSunLight->setPosition( Vector3(0, 100, 0) ); // 0, 150, 0) );
mSunLight->setCastShadows(true);
mSunLight->setSpecularColour(0.01,0.01,0.01);


Any idea why stencil shadows don't work? Thanks

Sure you're in the correct forum? Try the Ogre Help forum. Can't see any question about NxOgre.