baking programaticaly

[pera]

is it possible to bake shadows on texture using irrlicht api?

edit: more explanation, i have level created and loaded in irrlicht. directional light is added to the scene, now that level is finished, i realized that static models like houses and trees are not casting shadow on the grass. i don't want to add volume shadows because they are too demanding, but i want to bake shadows onto landscape and have this texture saved.

[codetiger]

You can generate shadow maps for static objects once and use it in all frames.

[pera]

how?

[greenya]

You talk about 2 different things: pera asks how to generate this type of textures and codetiger says that it is possible to use.
Well, yes you can use lightmaps.
And no, there is no automatically generating of them build-in Irrlicht. You can write your own algorithm to write image and use it as a texture. Or you can use 3rd party applications for that. But answering on your direct question: is it possible to bake shadows on texture using irrlicht api? -- No.

[pera]

how do i generate shadow maps for static objects once and use it in all frames?

[greenya]

IrrEdit ( http://www.ambiera.com/irredit/ ) can generate lightmaps.