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Elusive shadows
Posted by John Nelson on May 6, 2020 at 7:53 pmUsing a ‘vintage’ CS4 with a 2014 Mac mini/Yosemite.
I attached a light to the graphic and made sure it cast shadows. Made sure the graphic accepted shadows also. Made sure the background was slightly behind the graphic.
The first time I made adjustments the shadows worked normally. Later, I couldn’t get it to work. Everything functions except the shadow. Not sure what I may have done to make it go away.
Thanks for your input.
Eric Santiago replied 6 years ago 5 Members · 32 Replies -
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John Nelson
May 6, 2020 at 9:31 pmUsing a Samsung smart tv. Can’t understand if it worked once why it won’t work again…
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Walter Soyka
May 7, 2020 at 11:07 amMaybe you’ve accidentally set the viewer in a draft mode?
A screenshot of your complete UI might help us diagnose your problem.
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Richard Garabedain
May 7, 2020 at 5:14 pmwell first of all there is a preferences window blocking the screen..and #2…i can see you are trying to use layer drop shadows, which is not what you want. you want a light that cast shadows. usually you do not need anything else
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John Nelson
May 7, 2020 at 5:59 pm -
Richard Garabedain
May 7, 2020 at 7:56 pmare you sure the light is in the right place. it looks pretty small in the distance..hitting (AA) will bring up all the light options for a layer. cast shadows is turned off by default..and make sure the lights falloff is none
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John Nelson
May 7, 2020 at 8:16 pm -
John Nelson
May 7, 2020 at 8:28 pmJust did a custom view and the logo is not shown, only the background. But on active camera view it is shown. Maybe I screwed up some other parameter???
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John Nelson
May 7, 2020 at 8:42 pm
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