crossov3r
03-03-2005, 06:36 AM
i'm kind of new with Max, so please bare with me .... i playing with a small scene with two objects, a plane - for ground, on that plane i have a simple box, ok, now i really cannot manage to set the light to have a result like this one (picture taken from another thread in here) :
http://www.swouxhall.com/work/wheel.jpg
i am talking about the shadows and the ground object color - i cannot make the ground object to be completely white (or any other color) and still have shadows from the other object, and about the shadows, are those Area Shadows ??
i have tried Standard lights, Photometric lights with different settings, no results -- made the light really big, still no chance, changed the parameters for ground object material to completely matte (Self Illumination - color -100%-white), but in this case there are no more shadows .....if i use Sun light i manage to make the ground object to be white, but i cannot make the soft shadows ....and so on ....
if anybody has the patience, please give a short description on how to acomplish this kind of light and shadows ....
thanks.
http://www.swouxhall.com/work/wheel.jpg
i am talking about the shadows and the ground object color - i cannot make the ground object to be completely white (or any other color) and still have shadows from the other object, and about the shadows, are those Area Shadows ??
i have tried Standard lights, Photometric lights with different settings, no results -- made the light really big, still no chance, changed the parameters for ground object material to completely matte (Self Illumination - color -100%-white), but in this case there are no more shadows .....if i use Sun light i manage to make the ground object to be white, but i cannot make the soft shadows ....and so on ....
if anybody has the patience, please give a short description on how to acomplish this kind of light and shadows ....
thanks.