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sumeetkaur

10-23-2009, 08:00 PM

Hi. Following is the render of a Maya file which I rendered in Mental ray with raytrace on. There is only single Point Light in the scene which is casting shadows. As you all can see there are two objects kept on the plane(a cube and a sphere), and I want that the only point light in the scene(as mentioned before) shoud cast shadows for the cube and not the sphere.
So I selected the point light and the sphere and then I went to the rendering mode>Lighting/Shading>Break Shadows Link. But after following this step, still I get shadow for my sphere on the plane.

Can somebody Plzzz explain me what is that I am doing wrong? I would be very thankful.:)

kanooshka

10-23-2009, 08:50 PM

Make sure to enable shadow linking in the render settings, by default shadows obey light linking. :thumbsup:

sumeetkaur

10-23-2009, 09:04 PM

Thanks a lot Kanooshka for your timely help. It worked. Thanks once again.:)

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