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  • Cel shader shadow problems in R15

    Posted by Chris Shaw on January 24, 2015 at 11:14 pm

    Has anyone ever had a problem with the cel shader material in Cinema 4D R15 where the shadows look glitchy and pretty horrendous. Does anyone know the solution? The screenshot shows the setup.

    Thanks,
    Chris

    Zachary Guidry replied 7 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Jason Jantzen

    January 26, 2015 at 6:00 pm

    I recently had this issue like you’re describing when I went to render, the shadows seemed to flicker all the way through the animation. All I had were basic shapes, too. It was a computer screen and a stand, pretty boring and easy. I had a similar setup and was having a hard time just getting the shadow right for some reason. Anyway, I finally figured that if I set 2 colors for the shadow and diffuse channels then my problems seem to go away. I’m not sure if that was the ultimate solution because I also placed a light and isolated it on just the problem area (excluded that light from everything else).

    I’d try playing around with light placement and maybe 2 colors. I also turned off the camera setting (you have that checked in your scene). Then again, it’s what helped me to get my render going and may not even be what’s wrong with yours.

    Jason Jantzen
    vimeo.com/jasonj

  • Zachary Guidry

    September 27, 2018 at 8:26 pm

    I solved this problem by adding a Compositing tag to the object and turning off Self-Shadow.

    Zachary Guidry
    Multimedia Developer

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