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Subject: Color in shadows? (Carrara)

jschoen opened this issue on Jun 02, 2000 · 4 posts
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jschoen ( ) posted Fri, 02 June 2000 at 2:16 PM · edited Sun, 29 December 2024 at 9:17 AM

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I've tried everything I can think of. Does anyone know how to get the color of a transparent object to show up in the shadows? Here is what I'm trying to do. The main pic is Carrara, the inset is Bryce. I do have "Light through transparrency" turned on. James

aeryk71 ( ) posted Fri, 02 June 2000 at 2:54 PM

You have to put the colors into the transparency channel... Unfortunately I have not been able to get it to look as good as bryce does... Mark may have better info for you, Aeryk71

MarkBremmer ( ) posted Fri, 02 June 2000 at 4:46 PM

cool1.jpg Hi James, The problem is that Carrara, Soft Shadows and Transparency don't get along. If you disable the Soft Shadows (use Raytraced), the color of the object will color the shadow too. Here's a work-around for your situation though. It's not perfect for all circumstances but works great here: Leave your scene as it is. Change the light to Raytraced shadows. Select the ground plane and go to the Effects portion of the object tray. Enable blur and adjust to your liking. (On my system, if I adjust the blur and close the window before the tiny rendering in the blur window completly draws I crash. However, if it draws there are no problems.) Hope that this helps! Mark





jschoen ( ) posted Fri, 02 June 2000 at 11:19 PM

jnjshadow.jpg Well I came up with a longer render solution. I hope the next upgrade will fix this little problem. Thanks all BTW, for your input. James

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