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Subject: No Shadows in Poser :-(


ETHAN1 ( ) posted Tue, 13 November 2001 at 12:53 PM ยท edited Mon, 23 December 2024 at 1:08 PM

Hi, I have Poser 4 + Pro Pack but allways when I render a image I habe no shadows on the ground!? What do I wrong? I send everthing on "ON" in the rendermenu. Even Cast Shadows... Can anybody help me?


Cin- ( ) posted Tue, 13 November 2001 at 1:04 PM

Hmm... I can only think of two things... 1) Is the ground plane actually turned on (I know that seems really simply, but you never know)? 2) Are any of the lights pointing to where they would cast a shadow on the ground? Try starting a new render. Turn on the ground plane, load a box prop, and move it so that it is off the ground. Delete all of the default lights. Create a new light, make sure it's a spotlight, then set all of it's trans and rotate parameters to 0. this should let you see the outline of the spotlight in your window. Click the spotlight, and go to Object(I think)->Point at. Point it at your box... then move the spotlight up on the Y until it's above the box and shining light down onto the box. Try rendering that... it should cast a shadow onto the ground... this will at least let you see if there's something really wrong, or if you just need to fiddle with where the lights in your scene are pointing. I hope that helps...


aleks ( ) posted Tue, 13 November 2001 at 1:05 PM

are you using default lights? maybe a pic would help...


shadowcat ( ) posted Tue, 13 November 2001 at 1:05 PM

yeah I get that to, not to mention when I throw a texture on the groud that doesn't show either. so what I do is put a square on the ground and use that instead.


ETHAN1 ( ) posted Tue, 13 November 2001 at 1:23 PM

What do you mean "ground turned on" ? I set the color to white but where can I turn ground on or off? I tried a new rendering with a ball, delete all lights and create a new but no shadow appears :-(


ETHAN1 ( ) posted Tue, 13 November 2001 at 1:23 PM

file_232787.jpg

Shadowcolor is set to white ..........


thgeisel ( ) posted Tue, 13 November 2001 at 1:48 PM

just hit ctrl+g to turn the groundplane on


ETHAN1 ( ) posted Tue, 13 November 2001 at 1:50 PM

Thanks! I think i should better read the manual next time ;-) But I prefer LEARNING BY DOING


thgeisel ( ) posted Tue, 13 November 2001 at 2:01 PM

hehehe, me toolol


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