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Subject: About shadows - raytraced and mapped

bantha opened this issue on Mar 24, 2007 · 4 posts
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bantha ( ) posted Sat, 24 March 2007 at 5:01 PM · edited Wed, 26 February 2025 at 9:41 AM

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I posted two pictures today. Same model, different lighting. I got helpfull comments - one of them was to soften the shadows, by switching from ray traced to depth mapped shadows. I tried that - but the result was much different than I expected. The shadows looked different, especially in the face. I did further test renders, from which the included picture was composed.

Since the picture contains bare breasts, I only post the comparison here, so I do not have to flag it. But the full pictures can be found on my site, links are included here.

poser.maredias.de/Shadows/Depthmap1024.jpg
poser.maredias.de/Shadows/Depthmap4096.jpg
poser.maredias.de/Shadows/Raytracednoblur.jpg
poser.maredias.de/Shadows/raytracedblur10.jpg
poser.maredias.de/Shadows/raytracedblur20.jpg

So, which kind of shadows do you use, and why?

Do you compare the looks in a test render?


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byAnton ( ) posted Sat, 24 March 2007 at 11:33 PM

I did a whole bunch of tests recently. here is a link to what I was finding
http://www.contentparadise.com/forums/contentparadise/index.php?showtopic=3670

I like Raytracing but found mapped shadows still a favorite for speed. 

The lights I came up with of both types I included with Apollo Maximus' free download.

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linkdink ( ) posted Sun, 25 March 2007 at 12:51 AM

Thanks bantha, very informative post. 

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bantha ( ) posted Sun, 25 March 2007 at 2:06 AM · edited Sun, 25 March 2007 at 2:06 AM

Thank you, Anton. I had not seen your post on contentparadise earlier. Very helpfull.


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Sail out to sea and do new things.
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