I have a hat on a character and yes, the hat has shadows turned on, however when I render the image I get a brightness under the brim as attached. Is there a way of getting rid of the brightness under the brim of the hat?

First of all, what is your lighting set up and shadow settings?  If the only light is coming head on, then you aren't going to get any shadows down there.

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(using Poser Pro 2014 SR3, on 64 bit Win 7, poser units are inches.)

This is with full raytraced shadows and an infinite light pointing mostly down.

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Thanks Winterclaw, do you have a screen shot of your lighting setup and shadow settings you could show me? Looks like you've got what I'm looking for.

You say the hat has shadows turned on, but did you remember to turn them on in the Render Settings and on the Lights? That's three places to look at when turning on shadows. Prop + Lights + Render Settings.

Thanks, I think it was the turning on of the RayTracing that did the trick and making sure all the lights had their shadows turned on. Thanks Lost and Winter!

Yeah if you have Ray Traced Shadows set on the lights you must have Ray Tracing turned on as well. Glad we could help.

Depending on your scene, you do not need all your lights with shadow on.  For example, if you are setting a scene with a daytime sun, 1 infinite with shadows is enough.  If there is a fill light available, no shadows is needed.  An interior scene with multiple lights may require all the lights to have shadows active.  Again, fill lighting would require this.

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