Remove Entity Shadows

There are quite a few ways to remove shadows from entities, and nearly all of them have undesirable effects. There is no foolproof way to perfectly remove shadows from specific entities, without causing side effects.

This document will showcase some of the various ways to remove shadows, and any possible effects from doing this.

Small Collision Box ​

One possibility is to make the size of the collision component very small. This will make it hard to interact/hit the entity, but it will make the shadow disappear!

"minecraft:collision_box": {
    "width": 0.1,
    "height": 0.1
}

You can also add the custom hit test component. The custom_hit_test component will allow you to hit the entity, although you will not be able to interact with it. The custom_hit_test will not create a shadow.

"minecraft:custom_hit_test": {
    "hitboxes": [
        {
            "pivot": [0, 0.5, 0],//This is the position of the hitbox, you can change the X, Y and Z values.
            "width": 0.8,
            "height": 0.7
        }//And you can add many more hitboxes as you want, just copy-paste the hitbox inside the "hitboxes" array.
    ]
}

Teleport underground ​

If you have a dummy entity (invisible) that you need to interact with, you can teleport like /teleport @x ~ ~-0.01 ~. This will slightly insert the entity into the ground, and stop shadows from showing.

Using runtime identifier ​

Some entities don't have shadows, or very small shadows at least. By using the runtime identifier of these entities, we can remove the shadows. The downside is taking on that entities hard-coded behaviors, which can sometimes be very problematic. See the runtime identifiers document for more information.

Using Materials ​

- This folder is NOT included in the vanilla RP Pack examples and must be exported from a APK files or added by hand.
- This has not been tested for blocks and has only been verified for entities. If you find it works on blocks too please let us know so we can add that in.

"shadow_overlay":{
    "+states":[
        "DisableDepthTest",
        "DisableCulling",
        "Blending",
        "EnableStencilTest"
    ],
    "vertexShader":"shaders/color.vertex",
    "vrGeometryShader":"shaders/color.geometry",
    "fragmentShader":"shaders/shadow_stencil_overlay.fragment",
    "blendSrc":"DestColor",
    "blendDst":"Zero",
    "frontFace":{
        "stencilFunc":"Equal",
        "stencilPass":"Replace"
    }
}

"shadow_overlay":{
    "+states":[
        "DisableDepthTest",
        "DisableCulling",
        "Blending",
        "EnableStencilTest"
    ],
    "vertexShader":"",
    "vrGeometryShader":"",
    "fragmentShader":"",
    "blendSrc":"DestColor",
    "blendDst":"Zero",
    "frontFace":{
        "stencilFunc":"Equal",
        "stencilPass":"Replace"
    }
}

Geometry + Materials Workaround ​

You can hide entity shadows if you apply a model on your entity to cover the shadow and use "banner_pole" material.