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Subject: Poser Pro 2012 no ground shadows

mauk opened this issue on Dec 12, 2011 · 14 posts

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mauk ( ) posted Mon, 12 December 2011 at 4:24 AM · edited Sun, 02 February 2025 at 3:53 PM

With a background picture I see shadows but render no shadows on the ground.
I selected ground material and chosen only catch shadows, and in the render settings I selected cast shadows.
Where am I doing wrong?

Forgive my bad English

RobynsVeil ( ) posted Mon, 12 December 2011 at 4:26 AM

Which lights? Are they raytraced light? How many lights?

Monterey/Mint21.x/Win10 - Blender3.x - PP11.3(cm) - Musescore3.6.2

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mauk ( ) posted Mon, 12 December 2011 at 4:58 AM

Ok RobynsVeil the same light use with poser pro 2010 without problem and the same setting render.

Thank for reply

RobynsVeil ( ) posted Mon, 12 December 2011 at 5:32 AM

Try this: one light, infinite, raytraced shadows.

Display: Ground shadows enabled.

Work your way from simple to more complex.

Monterey/Mint21.x/Win10 - Blender3.x - PP11.3(cm) - Musescore3.6.2

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mauk ( ) posted Mon, 12 December 2011 at 7:25 AM

OK I'll try tonight at home

Thank's

FightingWolf ( ) posted Mon, 12 December 2011 at 2:17 PM

Is the ground visible in the properties tab? If the ground visible box is unchecked then your lights will not cast shadows on the ground.

mauk ( ) posted Tue, 13 December 2011 at 2:32 AM

Hi FightingWolf I tried it with ground visible, visible raytracing and visible Cam but I can not see the shadows in rendering.

Thank's for reply

mauk ( ) posted Tue, 13 December 2011 at 2:32 AM

Hi FightingWolf I tried it with ground visible, visible raytracing and visible Cam but I can not see the shadows in rendering.

Thank's for reply

mauk ( ) posted Tue, 13 December 2011 at 2:32 AM

Hi FightingWolf I tried it with ground visible, visible raytracing and visible Cam but I can not see the shadows in rendering.

Thank's for reply

estherau ( ) posted Tue, 13 December 2011 at 4:25 AM

sometimes it helps to select the light and go up to the top and click on element style and click texture shaded. Then change the size of the light from 100% to 5000 (don't worry it doesn't affect the light intensity or anything) then try some different camera views eg top camera. what you will probably find is that the light is halfway through the ground and you need to increase the Y axis to 10 or something.

In PP 2012 (which I know you don't have) there is an open GL preview you can see which actually shows you how your shadows are going to look in the scene. It is very useful.

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mauk ( ) posted Tue, 13 December 2011 at 7:20 AM

OK estherau use poser poser pro in 2012 and use the version 4, I always have photo rendering of the background and I never had problems with shadows on the ground, I have these problems only with pp2012.

Thank's for reply