PRIM CAST SHADOWS

According to User:Kelly_Linden in the JIRA SVC-1307 on 2008-02-25:

Once, a long long time ago - beta, and maybe up to v 1.1 or 1.2 - all prims cast shadow on the ground only. Some time around 1.0 - 1.2 there was a minor graphics update that got rid of these shadows (among other things). However there was a flag that could be set on prims to *turn shadows off*, and this was not removed and I don't know why. I'm not sure if llSetPrimitiveParams came around after or this was deprecated or just before, I think after. The prim shadows flag was included for "completeness", I assume, on the possibility it would do something. Or if I have my events backwards it really did do something for a very short time. The flag has had no effect for years now. I will re-enable it as a no-op. It will always return 0 and setting it will have no effect. So, I may be wrong in my history but this is how I think it happened. In any case, this parameter is gone and not coming back. I'll see about also changing the tool tip on the variable to indicate this.

My recollection is it showed up (probably by accident) during one of the previews. It was the preview where they were replacing the lighting engine (from software lights to hardware lights). Weather it did anything at that time I don't know, I didn't test it. I've done a bit of digging and I think it was the 1.10 preview. -- Strife ^{(talk|contribs)} 08:16, 14 April 2010 (UTC)