grichter opened this issue on Sep 24, 2010 · 9 posts
grichter posted Fri, 24 September 2010 at 10:05 AM
PP2010 all updates Mac version
PP2010 Manual says
Raytrace Shadows: Selecting Raytrace Shadows enables raytracing of shadows. Traditionally, raytracing results in clear, hard-edged shadows. However, Poser offers a method for softening the shadow edges, thus adding more realism to your raytraced shadows. You can control this effect using the Shadow Blur Radius dial (see below).
then the manual says (All bolded by me)
Shadow Blur Radius: All shadows have a blurry region around their edges. The Shadow Blur Radius parameter specifies the radius of this blurry region. By default, this dial is set to a low value. Raising the blur radius increases the soft shadow edge effect.
If the shadow is set to raytaced and I try this via a python script nothing changes. The value stays as is.
light.SetShadowBlurRadius(3.0)
If the shadow is set to DepthMapped then light.SetShadowBlurRadius(3.0) works.
Or if I run the script with the above code in raytrace mode I see no change as stated above. Change the shadow to depthmapped and the change appears by changing the shadow type or changes to 3.0, then change the shadow type back to raytraced and it holds at 3.0.
1.) Either I am doing something wrong
or
2.) it's a bug.
Anybody got as clue as to what's going on?
Thanks
Gary
Gary
"Those who lose themselves in a passion lose less than those who lose their passion"
bagginsbill posted Fri, 24 September 2010 at 1:34 PM
Bug.
Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)
grichter posted Fri, 24 September 2010 at 9:07 PM
Thanks BB
Reported to SM
Gary
"Those who lose themselves in a passion lose less than those who lose their passion"
semidieu posted Sat, 25 September 2010 at 4:06 AM
If I recall correctly, I already mentioned this at SM (saw this already since Poser 7)
grichter posted Sat, 25 September 2010 at 7:48 AM
Did a search in the bug tracker for SetShadowBlurRadius so I could tack on to prior reports and saw nothing. Either way, lets hope they fix it :)
Guess I could change the shadow type in my script to Depthmapped then back to raytraced as a work around :)
Gary
"Those who lose themselves in a passion lose less than those who lose their passion"
semidieu posted Sat, 25 September 2010 at 8:16 AM
This was before they made the thread public to all beta tester. So it's certainly still in 'private' state.
grichter posted Mon, 27 September 2010 at 10:24 AM
A reply came back from a reporter to my bug report that states:
"For softness of raytraced shadows, you have to use the (Set)ShadowRaytraceSoftness methods. They are new in version 8.0.3.11575. In earlier versions, you can't change blurring for raytraced shadows from Poser Python."
Gary
"Those who lose themselves in a passion lose less than those who lose their passion"
semidieu posted Mon, 27 September 2010 at 1:55 PM
I saw this... And tried it in Poser Pro 2010... And this was not working... but now I know why. The build version of Poser Pro 2010 is still older.
grichter posted Mon, 27 September 2010 at 4:44 PM
Quote - I saw this... And tried it in Poser Pro 2010... And this was not working... but now I know why. The build version of Poser Pro 2010 is still older.
makes sense because the debug reporter asks if you have 10.4 and the public build is 10.3, which is what I have. So one more update it appears.
Gary
"Those who lose themselves in a passion lose less than those who lose their passion"