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vectorsalad
04-27-2005, 01:53 AM
:banghead:

I have a nurbs plane with a leaf texture including an alpha transparency... the nurbs plane insists on casting a faint ray traced shadow.

So I checked it with a checker pattern - both color and transparency - SAME THING! The areas that are supposed to be invisible still cast a faint shadow...

Same thing with a transparency alpha of completely black for the entire surface.
Same thing for a polygon cube...

I must've been daydreaming when someone was telling me how to avoid this...
ChristopherP
04-27-2005, 06:46 AM
Try turning the Shadow Attenuation (Material Attributes -> Raytracing tab) down to zero.


Chris
vectorsalad
04-27-2005, 04:11 PM
:thumbsup:

Thanks JBlaze! Passed right by it in my mind's eye - looked like it was part of Refractions - and since I hadn't turned that on....

Hey! I lived in Fulda, Germany for 2-1/2 years. My last name is Sturm - it was fun to get to know the "family".

Thanks again! You Rock!

:)
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