Jackson opened this issue on Apr 10, 2005 ยท 6 posts
Jackson posted Sun, 10 April 2005 at 8:32 PM
This doesn't seem related to the below posts so I'm creating a new one. Whenever I disable shadows in the P4 and/or Firefly renderers, I can never get them back again until I start a new document. I've tried different light sets and shadow settings, nothing works. During render, what I think is the "Rendering Shadow Maps" message appears for a split second, but I get no shadow. I do not have "save shadow maps" turned on. Any ideas?
Likos posted Mon, 11 April 2005 at 7:13 AM
Do raytraced shadows work?
Jackson posted Mon, 11 April 2005 at 2:11 PM
"Do raytraced shadows work?" No, they don't work either. As far as I can tell, the only way I can get shadows back is to start a whole new document. Later I'll try saving the scene and opening it again to see if that does it.
Nance posted Mon, 11 April 2005 at 11:45 PM
ohhh - nooo... my favorite toys fubar? Say it ain't so Jack! (As yet to delve into P6 potential with lights.)
Jackson posted Tue, 12 April 2005 at 1:25 PM
It might just be me; I haven't seen anyone else mention this problem. BTW: I just found out raytraced shadows don't work at all, even when depth map shadows are. When I change a light from depth map to raytraced shadows, I do get the box saying "rendering shadow map" but no shadow renders.
Likos posted Wed, 13 April 2005 at 10:45 AM
I had the problem where it would not render depth mapped shadows but it seems to render raytraced ones ok. (now if i can get the right combo on AO to get rid of artifacts!) I'm on a Mac so there may be a slight difference in the issue.