bagginsbill opened this issue on Feb 09, 2006 · 68 posts
bagginsbill posted Fri, 11 May 2007 at 6:51 AM
Adorana posted mysterious bad shadows with IBL at RDNA - she emailed EF and they acknowledged the problem. Don't know if the SR's address it.
Fish eye distortion is due to a low focal length on the camera. This is appropriate for spotlight shadow cams, as they actually are pretty darn close to the figure and have to be made wide angle to include the full spread of the light. If you narrow the width of the spotlight cone, the camera goes to a longer focal length. and there is less fisheye. But don't worry about fisheye - you're not rendering the scene from that point of view - you're rendering the shadows and they are indeed fanning out in a cone.
Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)