Why when I use just one spotlight one figure and one cube - can't I get a shadow of the figure on the cube?

I've got sunlight disabled, sun moon shadows and sun moon visible all turned to OFF, and the atmosphere is off and the sky colour set to black, and nothing... I've even tried going to a premium render and turning soft shadows on but still nothing, I've tried clicking on shadows in the light lab but still nothing, nothing I do seems to get any sort of shadows at all.

Only when the sun is on are there shadows...

Help??? P.S. cast shadows is on for everything as is receive shadows... still nothing...

Message edited on: 11/16/2005 08:17

It's probably the Shadows Ambient setting on the "Sky & Fog" palette. If not, it's kinda hard to tell, so feel free to send it over again if you have no luck.

Len. EDIT: If you do sent it over, remove the figure first (or DAZ will kick both our asses).

Message edited on: 11/16/2005 08:32

Bet you've turn off receive shadows for the walls material.

xenic, Nope I haven't, as I stated above in message 1. Er... what walls material? It's just the default grey. Okay folks, I've tried changing the colour on the "wall", changing the shadow ambience colour, and still nothing. I've even tried changing the girl for a bryce column, still nothing. Althought the girl was not illuminated at all, whereas the column - is. But still no shadow.

My understanding was that turning off sun/moon shadows also turned off shadows from other sorts of lights, at least that's been my experience.

There's no point in changing the shadow's ambient colour, because you have no shadow! Adjust the shadows ambient amount - NOT it's colour.

...in other words, set ambient colour to black, and ambient amount to 100% for the strongest shadow! Len. (Honest)

Sorry Len, but I already tried that and what I get is exactly the same as the image in message 7 above...

Well..the offer still stands - and it's FREE! Len. (Can sort it in 1 second flat - perhaps 10)

Ah. Thanks MarkHirst, You got it. I've had trouble with shadows before and I think it's Bryce's ambiguous naming of that "sun/moon shadows" that always throws me. It would be better if it was called "Global shadows" Or even just "all shadows". Trouble is I don't often play with shadows - them being so render intensive, I usually just leave it on default. I just tried it with old baldy Victoria and it even worked with her. Thanks Mark. Fran

Thanks Len, but I've got it figured now. Thanks to all for the suggestions!