CGTalk - Light Linking help

janoonibarbin

12-04-2008, 06:08 PM

Hi, i am trying to light link 2 lights to an object in maya one with green cast shadow and one with red receiving shadows. I want the object receiving shadow to have a different color than the color of the shadow the object casts on the ground plane.

With the red light I can break the connection with the ground plane so only the object get red shadow. However, when I break the connection of the object and the Green light in order to get only green cast shadows is doesn't cast any at all.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

jeremybirn

12-08-2008, 01:12 PM

By default your render settings are set for "shadows obey light linking." I think you want "shadows obey shadow linking" instead in this case, and then you want to make shadow links between the objects that should cast the shadows and the lights you want them to cast shadows in.

-jeremy

janoonibarbin

12-08-2008, 10:14 PM

Thanks for the help. I will try that out.

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