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Subject: Hair won't cast shadow

morphious opened this issue on Aug 03, 2005 · 24 posts
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morphious ( ) posted Wed, 03 August 2005 at 6:28 AM · edited Mon, 23 December 2024 at 12:44 PM

Poser 6, IBL lighting, MAC OSX. For some reason the hair isn't casting a shadow onto the figure. I have tried adding an AO node to the skin, but no go. Anyone have an idea? Thanks.

zulu9812 ( ) posted Wed, 03 August 2005 at 6:31 AM

IBL lights are set with shadows off by default - you need to turn them on in the light's properties

morphious ( ) posted Wed, 03 August 2005 at 6:36 AM

I did. I also tried AO lighting. Also, why are there 4 lights, but on the IBL is "check" on in the properties. The sun, light 1, light 3 are "checked" off. Not to get off topic, but also was wondering about it. Thanks.

zulu9812 ( ) posted Wed, 03 August 2005 at 7:06 AM

IBL lighting only uses 1 light, again by default - you can add in more, if you want. As for why shadows aren't being cast, I'm not sure.

morphious ( ) posted Wed, 03 August 2005 at 7:08 AM

If IBL lighting is used in the default light preset, it creates 4 lights, but only one is turned on.

raven ( ) posted Wed, 03 August 2005 at 7:46 AM

Does the hair have cast shadows enabled in its' properties?


morphious ( ) posted Wed, 03 August 2005 at 7:49 AM

Yes it does.

marco-xxx ( ) posted Wed, 03 August 2005 at 12:05 PM

I noticed that if you load a IBL from the library its by default with shadows disabled and, even if you enable the shadows, don't cast them: perhaps it's one of Poser bugs. Did you use a IBL loaded from library?

morphious ( ) posted Wed, 03 August 2005 at 12:08 PM

Yes, it was loaded from the library. I turned shadows on, and there are shadow everywhere except where the hair should be creating them again the figure. Strange.

Acadia ( ) posted Wed, 03 August 2005 at 12:22 PM

I usually turn off cast shadow for hair because when I don't, I often end up with ugly black patches instead of subtle shadows... especially at the neck area. To me a shadow should be darker, but still allow you to see the shape of what is there. I never get that when I have hair casting shadows....just plain opaque ugly black voids.

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lesbentley ( ) posted Wed, 03 August 2005 at 1:02 PM

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=1059682

It may be the problem described in the thread linked above.

morphious ( ) posted Wed, 03 August 2005 at 1:09 PM

It mentions "Shadowcam". Where is Poser 6 is this?

xantor ( ) posted Wed, 03 August 2005 at 1:26 PM

In the parameter dials, in the camera part.

morphious ( ) posted Wed, 03 August 2005 at 1:31 PM

Thanks. I'll give it a shot.

morphious ( ) posted Thu, 04 August 2005 at 10:01 AM

I can't find the ShadowCam anywhere?

xantor ( ) posted Thu, 04 August 2005 at 10:30 AM

The ShadowCam is not an object that you can select. It can only be selected from the parameter dials window.

morphious ( ) posted Thu, 04 August 2005 at 10:32 AM

Yes I know, but what object parameter dial am I looking at?

xantor ( ) posted Thu, 04 August 2005 at 10:44 AM

If you look in the cameras part of the parameter dials window, all the shadow cameras are at the bottom of that part.

morphious ( ) posted Thu, 04 August 2005 at 10:50 AM

I must be bone stupid. I selected the main camera, and the properties tab, and there are no dials for shadow. Can you give a 123 step please. Thanks. Sorry for the thick headedness.

morphious ( ) posted Thu, 04 August 2005 at 11:27 AM

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Here's mine. No shadow cameras.

raven ( ) posted Thu, 04 August 2005 at 1:05 PM

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Hopefully this pic shows how to access the shadowcams. Select the one that corresponds to the light that should be casting a shadow, then it will be available in the parameters pallette.


morphious ( ) posted Thu, 04 August 2005 at 1:10 PM

Boy do I feel stupid. Thanks.

morphious ( ) posted Thu, 04 August 2005 at 1:13 PM

I notice, that using IBL, or AO, those options are not available.

raven ( ) posted Thu, 04 August 2005 at 3:04 PM

Do you have ray-tracing enabled in your render settings? I just did a test using an IBL light and shadows only showed up properly when ray-tracing was enabled in the render settings and ray-traced shadows was enabled on the IBL light.


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