[RESOLVED] - Actor.Render after Draw2DAction makes specular disappear

[beyonder]

If I do an Actor.Render *after* a Draw2D I loose my awesome specular highlights. I really need them because I am rendering skin. I've tried Shader and Blended modes. Both seem to disappear. Sound like a bug?


Why I am trying to render an Actor after a Draw2D:

I am trying to get soft shadows to work via Zaks>Rauls efforts.
 
It works. The way its set up it only works properly if the Actor recieves a self-shadow.
 
I can't have this...
 
So I have to render the soft shadow via a render surface first and then draw my Actor on top of it. Otherwise the shadow will be drawn on top of my actor:



Thanks in advance...!

[SylvainTV]

The bug is that 2D rendering disable specular/fog/lighting.
If you render something else after the 2D rendering, all will still be disabled. 2d is supposed to be rendered always after all 3d, so it doesn't cause usually lots of problems.

I think that if you force TVLightEngine.SetSpecularEnable false/true again. Specular will reappear correctly

[beyonder]

Hey... it worked!

Finally....!!! Lets have a soft-shadows party!



I didn't want to post... but my site and software have had a makeover. http://aibliss.com/ Will try to get softshadows in in a few days.

... thanks Zak, Raul, Sylvain ... I've been waiting for this a long time.