I used the ivy_generator to generate the ivy in this picture When I set my shadows to Ray Trace the top picture is rendered When it is set to Depth Map the bottom picture is rendered. I have always rendered with the Depth Map and some of the other plants I use come out the same way. By looking at he pictures, can anyone tell me what I is going on? I am using Poser V6 with all the SR's installed Thank you

PoserPro 2014, Windows 7, AMD FX-6300 6 core, 8 GB ram, Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti

Have you tried changing your mapsize? When your shadowmap is too small it may be too coarse to make accurate shadows. When I look at your settings, I see that in the ray-trace settings the blurradius is 0 and in the depthmapsettings it is 2.0 depthmapshadows are blurry by default. When you have a lot of small close objects giving shadows (like a plant) blurry shadows tend to overlap which results in darker shadows. For a crisp image it's better too use Ray-tracing, but you can first try to change the size of the shadowmap in the parametersettings.

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Bopperthijs.

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Thank you Bopperthijs for answering me, I tried your suggestion, but it did'nt work.
Looking at the material room, I checked the Normals and it worked fine then
Thank you again
Steve

PoserPro 2014, Windows 7, AMD FX-6300 6 core, 8 GB ram, Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti

How big did you make the shadowmap? I would expect that you would need a value about 4096 for the shadows to get sharp.

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