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eternal01
04-15-2008, 03:41 PM
Hi
When I try to render with maya 7.0, I get strange dark areas that shouldn't be so black. It looks as if my whole piece was all dirty.
I'm rendering with mental and adding / removing the final gather, global illumination or anything like that doesn't seem to change anything.
I use only spot lights too.
Does anyone have an idea why this is happening?

lightcache
04-15-2008, 03:50 PM
up your shadow samples. havnt got maya infront of me right now. but looks like thats the problem.

eternal01
04-15-2008, 04:10 PM
wow, thanks!
I just changed the dept map shadows to raytrace shadows and now everything is fine!

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