Light leaks?

[sundialsvc4]

This could be one of those 'computer moments' when "0.0001 is not equal to 0.0," if you catch my drift. You might have to select the various points and actually, explicitly, weld them together. Or block the light with another off-screen plane. Annoying, but it happens from time to time in all 3D packages, and the best solution is usually "whatever works."

[Dark_ki_Flame]

Another thing you may want to try, is rather than shelling the box to make a room, flip the normals with the normal modifier. It'll be less bulky, and if you're in the room, what difference does it make?

[TimWoods]

probably the settings on your light shadow. is it shadow mapped? then its the bias setting

[jadedchron]

sundialsvc4, I need to keep this clean as possible for a course project [final], so I'm not sure I'll be able to do that. You're probably right about the code being dumb ;)

Dark_ki_Flame, I tried flipping Normals, and then cutting a hole (using the same light setup), but the results were far worse. It's as if the light treets the wall like it's not even there.

Tim Woods, I thought about that, but after trying a bunch of different biases,samples, and size settings, I couldn't get anything to change other than the softness of the shadow.

This is really starting to bug me out :scream:

[TimWoods]

email me the file or post it up. i will have a look.

[ToddD]

jadedchron (member.php?u=12826), I think you might be able to find an answer to this at cgarchitect, try searching their forum.

[jadedchron]

I couldn't find it over at the Architect forums, but I did resolve the issue. Thanks everyone for your replies.

[Multimediaman]

starting with a box or something with flipped normals in my experience is actually the best way I've found to do this, but to avoid the issues of the walls not even casting a shadows, I think in max 6 there's a shadow parameter in the lights that is something along the lines of "double-sided shadows"... might only be for raytraced shadows, not completely sure... if you're not on max 6, or of you don't see that option there, simply use a double-sided material on the shell of the room

[jadedchron]

Thanks. I just needed to turn on shadows and then exclude them later. The flipped normals is a great trick for interior work, though.

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