Cast Shadows?

sumares_f2eb1f99b2

I have several lights and actors setup in a scene where there should be shadows cast from the presence of one actor onto another. The actors are both configured with "Cast Shadows" turned on, but there is never a shadow where it should be.

Each indivudual actor has shadowed and lighted areas due to each light source hitting that actor, but when one actor who should clearly be blocking the light of another, it never does.

Any help on this?

frank0314

are you using deep shadow or raytrace shadows on the lights. One of them need to be on to get shadows

sumares_f2eb1f99b2

Ah, I did not. Reading up on that in the User's Guide now. Thanks!!

Jaderail

Be informed of this, at this time Deep Shadow maps have a possible error at render time. The Error is in the 3Deliight render engine which is created by another party and not DAZ 3D, the recommended setting is Ray Traced until the error has been fixed, for any lights that will cast shadows. Deep Shadow maps are usable but may cause artifacts in renders.