DougG
01-07-2003, 10:27 PM
Hey everyone, I had a question about using light tracer. For some reason its not affecting the shadows the way I thought light tracer did. I have set up a scene with simple background and a sphere in the center. I set up a plane for the base with a matte/shadow texture applied. I then used two simple omni lights with the attenuation changed to attempt to fake the way I thought the shadows should look.
I have 4 diferent pictures to show you what I was experimenting with.
1 - the first render I used raytraced shadows and the effect is rather ugly as you can see. the shadows are too hard
2 - same lighting setup as 1 but I just moved the sphere to show that the shadows arent behaving like I thought they did in light tracer
3 - same default position as the first render only this time I changed the shadows to a shadow map. I like this render the best, but as you can see in the 4th render once I move the sphere you can see the shadows are faked.
4 - I moved the sphere again here to show that Light Tracer isn't working with the shadows.
Can anyone please help me out with my shadowing problem. I thought light tracer also affected the way the shadows rendered out. I must be doing something wrong. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
:shrug:
I have 4 diferent pictures to show you what I was experimenting with.
1 - the first render I used raytraced shadows and the effect is rather ugly as you can see. the shadows are too hard
2 - same lighting setup as 1 but I just moved the sphere to show that the shadows arent behaving like I thought they did in light tracer
3 - same default position as the first render only this time I changed the shadows to a shadow map. I like this render the best, but as you can see in the 4th render once I move the sphere you can see the shadows are faked.
4 - I moved the sphere again here to show that Light Tracer isn't working with the shadows.
Can anyone please help me out with my shadowing problem. I thought light tracer also affected the way the shadows rendered out. I must be doing something wrong. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
:shrug: