Custom Locator on Viewport 2.0

[icapathos]

I encountered an issue with MPxDrawOverride,

I create a my own custom locator and use MPxDrawOverride to support on Viewport 2.0.

I have thought that it works well, but today I got strange case.

When the custom locator gets bigger that I expected, it clashes with Viewport 2.0.

Actually, it makes trouble with casting shadow.

So I tried with sample source that named as "footPrint", but it was the same.

It seems that drawing huge locator means that just enlarging the images.

I tested in Maya 2017 Update3.

footPrint : Scale 1

footPrint : Scale 10

footPrint : Scale 100

footPrint : Scale 1000

footPrint : Scale 2000

footPrint : Scale 5000

[cheng_xi_li · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Could you try to disable cast shadow and receive shadows of your locators? They are under render stats group.

You could make it default value with postConstructor, e.g.

void footPrint::postConstructor()
{
	//Disable shadow maps for this locator by default

	MFnDependencyNode fn(thisMObject());
	auto receive = fn.findPlug("receiveShadows");
	auto cast = fn.findPlug("castsShadows");

	receive.setBool(false);
	cast.setBool(false);
}

Yours,

Li

[icapathos]

It works.

I've even check the default locator and it also has been disabled castsShadows and receiveShadhows.

I don't even think that a locator casts and receives shadow.