Nukeboy opened this issue on Sep 08, 2002 ยท 5 posts
Nukeboy posted Sun, 08 September 2002 at 7:56 PM
First: I was rendering an image with shadows and noticed that regardless of the options>properties setting, I kept getting a shadow of the curve of the horseshoe magnet. However, I did not get shadows from the "magnets" suppled in the Props folder from the install. Very curious. Was I doing something wrong, etc. etc.
Second: I was playing around with some of Schlabber's poses and notice that on both the P4 and Vicki, he has poses for the long conforming curls. Does anyone know of some nice textures and trans maps for this hair? Seems a waste to have these poses and end up with a maniquin hairstyle....
Thanks.
PS: if you can answer the second in the affirmative, what are the settings to make the LCC fit Vicki?
Tisa posted Sun, 08 September 2002 at 8:05 PM
Attached Link: http://home.wnm.net/~bgriff/allie/
go to the site in the link; bottom item on the page. To get the Hair to fit Victoria twist on the Y axis with head selected and just play with the dials a little till they fit. Not sure about the magnet shadow sounds strange
leather-guy posted Sun, 08 September 2002 at 10:16 PM
"I was rendering an image with shadows and noticed that regardless of the options>properties setting, I kept getting a shadow of the curve of the horseshoe magnet." Something to try - select the magnet, call up it's properties, and see if cast shadow is checked? It may be as simple as that. Cheers!
Nukeboy posted Mon, 09 September 2002 at 9:04 AM
I did check the magnet's properties. Each mag has three parts: the magnet (which does not have a "cast shadows" feature) and the mag base and mag zone (which do have a "cast shadows") All instances of "cast shadows" were set so that they wouldn't.
I even tried it with them checked and didn't notice any difference. Weird.
Thanks for the link Tisa!
lesbentley posted Mon, 09 September 2002 at 1:32 PM
This sounds strange, I have never seen a magnet cast shadows. Is this a magnet from a library, if so which one? Or are you applying it to a body part or prop from the Object menu? Or is it loading in a pz3? You are not giving us much information to go on here.
If the magnet is from a props pallet you could try opening it's pp2 in a text editor and searching for any lines starting with "castsShadow" the value for these lines should be 0, if it's 1 change it to 0.
As a workaround you could try hiding the magnet with the Visible check box in its properties dialogue, before you render. Or set its materials properties to transparent in The Materials Editor.