• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Polygon object insists on “floating”

  Posted by Kelly Burns on May 9, 2013 at 1:37 am

  Hello,

  I’m trying to get this yellow shape to sit on the light blue platform shape… and actually, it is penetrating into that light blue shape a bit, but still appears to be floating.
  The attached pic is rendered with GI and AO on. I’ve tried a bunch of things, but can’t get it to look right.
  Using R14.
  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  Thanks!
  K

  

  Kelly Burns replied 13 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  May 9, 2013 at 2:50 am

  Looks like a soft shadow problem. There are a number of ways to address it:

  1. Use higher resolution shadow maps;
  2. Adjust the shadow bias setting;
  3. Use area shadows instead of soft shadows (recommended);
  4. Use luminous objects instead of lights (for GI rendering only).
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  Kelly Burns

  May 9, 2013 at 2:23 pm

  Thanks, Adam!

  That was it! Weird, because I was zoomed in WAY tight, and it looked like there was always a buffer zone of just “nothing happening” there. Ha! Thanks again for answering my bone-head question.
  🙂

  K

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