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eswi

10-25-2009, 12:19 PM

When I render in Modo, I get these pixelated shadows, everything else is sharp. How can I change that?

Thanks a lot!

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Magnus3D

10-25-2009, 12:55 PM

You could try increasing the Samples value of your emitters and/or increasing your antialiasing samples per pixel value and perhaps change the antialiasing filtertype. Or a combination of them all.

/ Magnus

eswi

10-25-2009, 08:03 PM

Thanks for your help!

I tried to change the Radius of the Spot Light (from top) to nonzero and increase the sample number but I see no change. "Simple Shading" on/off doesn't help either.

I changed Shader Tree > Render > Antialisaing from 8 to 256 Samples/Pixel, no improvement. Reflection Depth or any of the other fields under Render also don't seem to affect it. I also tried all the types of Antialiasing.

CaptainObvious

11-11-2009, 11:19 AM

Are you using ray traced shadows, or a shadow map? If it's the former, it's possible that what you're seeing is geometry. Try increase the subdivision level for the affected geometry.

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