Invisible object produce a shadow

[Jim Scott]

The object being cloned (Schuppe.1) should be invisible automatically when placed in the cloner and should not cast a shadow. Are you sure that Schuppe.1 is causing the shadow and not another object (Untere Teil, for example)? Otherwise, looking at your screenshot alone nothing jumps out at me that could be causing an issue. Could you post your project file?

[Maxim Fischer]

So I tried it on two diffrent pc’s with the latest version but got the same result. Then I disable the Shader for the Cloner and the shadow disappears from the main object. I don’t get it ….

[Maxim Fischer]

I got a solution. When I go to the shader->effector->strength and change it from 100% to 99,9999% the shadow disappears. It’s so strange. If you want to find another solution here is the link to my project file:

https://we.tl/hacJJLOvCs

[Jim Scott]

Yes, that is very strange. The shadow goes away with strength values just above 100% as well. I do notice that at 100% a render seems to hold for several seconds with the render buckets over that shadow area much longer than it does when just placing a regular object there to cast a shadow (indicating that it is doing more calculations), which does seem to suggest that there is something odd going on there.

Well, at least you found a workable solution.

[Maxim Fischer]

Thanks anyway ????

[Ryan Jacobson]

Hi Maxim, I’m new here. So you have already tried adding a compositing tag to Schuppe.1 and turned off shadows for the main object which turned off all the shadows for the clones? I tried recreating it and didn’t see any issues. You could maybe try making the cloner editable. Or in your lights under Project, you can Exclude your main object. Hope this helps or you find a solution. Good luck!

– Ryan

[Maxim Fischer]

Hello Ryan,

the problem maker was the Shader I used. So the solution was this :

“When I go to the shader->effector->strength and change it from 100% to 99,9999% only the main shadow disappears.”