I am about to pull my hair out!

I have done this scene...figure, water, stones...I have set up sky lights. Sun, spec and HDR.

I want to have light as if through leaves. This use to be easy. I did a square, did a black and white map of leaves and used it as a transmap and the light would caste the shadows.

Tried it...no go.

Adjusted it....still no go.

SO I thought, ok Ill use it like a gel on the light...it did caste shadows but oddly..on the figure the shadows were great..but behind her on the stones the shadows were smaller and too dark....as if the tile was smaller there.

I also noted the water was not getting any shadows on it.

SO i tried different ways of using the "gel"..but still was having the issue of size of shadows on different things in the scene....

I am using pp2012 on windows 7 64bit.

ANYWAY (short of having trees in the shot..which didnt work either btw) of getting even, shadows for this?

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Commission Closed till 2025