In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to add simple 2D shadows to your 2D game. My original blog post demonstrated that you can create simple 2D Shadows that are realistic, with no additional textures, no new lines of code and no math. I extend that concept by making the shadows dynamic relative to your suns position, adding a Sun Cycle.
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In this example, I’ll show you how to add 2D shadows to your game with no new lines of code, no additional textures and no math. It turns out everything you need is already contained in Spritbatch.Draw.
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