MR soft shadows in maya 6

[Jozvex]

I can't find anything new like that in Maya 6 I'm afraid.

There's a softness attribute that blurs/softens the whole shadow like an area light, but it doesn't get softer/sharper depending on the distance. That attribute was in Maya 5 too.

But, that's not to say that I just haven't found it yet.

[CIM]

Detail shadowmaps: Combination of shadowmap and ray traced shadow algorithms for more realistic shadows

[Jozvex]

Hmmm.

Yes well I just checked again and it's got tons of info about that in the Mental Ray docs but I can't find anything at all like that integrated into Maya,

Not on the lights, the Mental Ray shaders or the Render Globals.

[lazzhar]

I didnt see maya6 yet but it's interesting that this option is availble for us.
However it's not hard to simulate the soft shadows. I usualy use 4 spots with a d-map resolution of 256 and it it gives similar resluts like area lights without to pay all that rendering time.

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