I have a complex object with meshes and sub-objects (children). In order for it to cast & receive shadows (on itself and other objs), do I have to recurse through the whole thing setting .castShadow and .receiveShadow on every sub-object, or can I set it on the top-level Object3D?
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Have you tried setting it just on the top-level object?
Yes, didn’t seem to work, but I’m not sure if I’m doing it right. There seem to be a lot of little things to set up (shadow cameras on the lights at least?)
That’s odd, because the docs say Object3Ds have a .receiveShadow and .castShadow attribute. But maybe it’s not recursively applied to children Meshes.
I’ve been poking around in the source and I don’t see anywhere it looks up the tree to parents, or propagates it down. So I guess I need to do that recursive traversal.
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It’s not recursively applied.
Shadows are very expensive and you should be as conservative as possible when enabling them.
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