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Elliotjnewman

02-20-2003, 12:13 AM

I have just rendered out an image using depth map shadows. I have noticed on the render that the shadows do appear but are only cast on other objects - there are no depth map shadows cast from an object onto iteself. For instance in a scene I have two objects - a staircase and a ground plane, the staircase will cast a shadow onto the ground plane but there will be no shadows cast from the stairs onto the stairs - although there should be.

Any ideas?

luminis

02-20-2003, 01:20 AM

Perhaps you already checked this, but it's the only thing that I can think of right now.

Open the Attribute Editor and show the Shape Node of the object that is not getting shadows. On the 'Render Stats' field make sure 'Receive Shadows' is checked.

Hope this helps.

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