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teewsandy

04-16-2003, 05:15 PM

I wish I could remember and now I can't find my notes or anywhere on how to make just a shadow light. I don't need specular or diffuse just for the light to cast shadows.

I remember it was something like making 2 directionals with 1 being an intesity of -1.

Sorry for this question that may be simple but I couldn't find the answer after searching. :hmm:

Thanks in advance.

~Andy~

beaker

04-16-2003, 07:36 PM

make a light that is colored black with a shadow color of -1

Gremlin

04-17-2003, 04:03 AM

The above meathod works, and is better... but if your not using an Ambient light source, you can just uncheck the "emit diffuse" and "emit specular" boxes in the attributes. :D
Cheers,
:beer:

18th_Devil

04-17-2003, 05:53 AM

-1 or a -0.* value cuz -1 is really dark...it just sucks in all the light like a black hole :scream:

u can change this in the intensity value.

or wat beaker said would work too but if u want it to absourb the light then make it a negitive light by using a negitive value for the intensity.

teewsandy

04-17-2003, 05:29 PM

Thanks for the replies. Beaker's method worked great and I jotted down the rest on notes to experiment later. And this time I will keep my notes. :thumbsup:

Thanks again.

~Andy~

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