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angelscars

12-14-2002, 06:37 PM

this might be a really stupid question but I try and follow the tutorial (5th thingie in the introduction to lightning section, second half) step by step, but there is no shadow after I render, which is there in the tutorial..
it might be hard to tell for you guys, but can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong (or what is commonly being done wrong in this tutorial..)
I tried this tutorial several times but I get the same result every time..
with the spotlight's Intensity/Color/Attenuation multiplyer value on 0 I cant get a shadow whatever I try that is in the tutorial..

please help me :cry:

zicher

12-14-2002, 11:16 PM

Interesting. Let me forward this to the writers of that tutorial.

During max 5 development the shadow maps behaviour with the multiplier set to 0 was changed. This tutorial probably works fine on max 4, and the changes in max 5 makes it misbehave.

We'll take care of this.
Thanks
Rob

angelscars

12-14-2002, 11:18 PM

so its the tutorial that came with max 5 that is wrong?
joy, and I kept on trying for hours to figure out what I was doing wrong..

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