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Subject: Square Shadow in PP2014

Burpee opened this issue on Jul 18, 2014 · 5 posts
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Burpee ( ) posted Fri, 18 July 2014 at 8:37 AM · edited Mon, 25 November 2024 at 7:27 PM

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I modeled some objects in Hexagon.  I brought them into Poser 2014 and when I do a test render I have a square shadow on the ground plane.  Just tested in P9, same thing.

The preview shows the correct shadow but once I render it's rectangular.

 

Anyone know what is happening here?

bagginsbill ( ) posted Fri, 18 July 2014 at 8:41 AM · edited Fri, 18 July 2014 at 8:42 AM

Yes it's a known bug with depth mapped shadows. SM has not shown any interest in fixing it.

I won't bother with details. 

It happens if everything in your scene fits in a small bounding box (small being under 10 inches if I recall correctly).

Fixes:

Add another object that is more than 10 inches away.

Make your object bigger than 10 inches.

Use raytraced shadows.

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Burpee ( ) posted Fri, 18 July 2014 at 8:57 AM

You are amazing!  Thank you.  I thought it was something to do with my models...whew.

bagginsbill ( ) posted Fri, 18 July 2014 at 11:05 AM

You're welcome. You're not alone - many people making their first small prop (jewelry, insects, pens) encounter this bug and post here. So I'm not amazing - I just have a memory. grin

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Burpee ( ) posted Fri, 18 July 2014 at 12:12 PM

I did a search but did not find this exact problem.  That's why I worried that it was my props.  I thank your amazing memory then :)

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