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mayaq
03-26-2005, 11:17 PM
how do i get an object to stop casting shadows from a specific light
in mental ray?

i know about the cast shadow checkbox in render stats, but this
turns it off for all lights. this isn't very useful because i need
it to cast shadows for all lights except one.

is there a setting somewhere?

or do lights have their own shadow map clipping planes to choose
which range of objects (from the light's view) casts shadows (like
in renderman)?
akewt
03-27-2005, 12:21 AM
you could duplicate the light that you dont want to give the shadow and use the lightlinker to unlink it from that object and then with the original do the opposite and unlink evrything but the object. you get me?
mayaq
03-27-2005, 07:54 PM
i think so.

i'll give it a try.

thanks akewt.
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