This setting controls the Dynamic Shadows in-game.
Default Setting[]
- 0
Possible Settings[]
- 0
- Off. This leaves the 'blob' type shadow only. Blob shadow cannot be removed as CVar_shadowLOD is no longer available.
- 1
- Precomputed terrain shadows, dynamic shadows near player.
- 2
- Static environment shadows, dynamic shadows near player.
- 3
- Full dynamic shadows.
Changing this setting[]
In-game, type the following
/console shadowMode setting
Alternatively, you can exit wow, open the Config.wtf file, and add the following line:
SET shadowMode setting
Or you can change the setting via the in-game Video Options.
In-game Graphics Settings[]
This is how this setting relates to graphics options in-game:
- Low
- shadowMode = 0.
- Fair
- shadowMode = 1, shadowTextureSize not set in WTF (default is 1024).
- Good
- shadowMode = 1, shadowTextureSize = 2048.
- High
- shadowMode = 2, shadowTextureSize = 2048.
- Ultra
- shadowMode = 3, shadowTextureSize = 2048.
Patches[]
Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Added