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  • Shading problem with Particular 2

    Posted by Stef Prein on May 8, 2011 at 1:40 pm

    Hi!

    I try to create some kind of windy effect in Particular 2. So far, so good 🙂 But between the start of the wind cone and the big blowing cloud at the end, I see a big dark shadow on the cone. I have one light in front of the comp (spotlight) and I’m trying to light the shadow with a second. But that part doesn’t work out so well…
    See the example: wind.jpg.

    What kan I do to make the shadow lighter?

    Thanks a lot!

    Stef Prein
    director/designer at StudioFets.
    Utrecht, The Netherlands
    http://www.studiofets.com

    Stef Prein replied 15 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Chris Mcfall

    May 8, 2011 at 2:31 pm

    unfortunatly I couldn’t view your JPG as the link didn’t work, so i don’t know precisely the trouble your having, but have you raised the ambient/diffuse levels in particulars shader settings… also have you considered tweaking the shadowlet placement functions… If you set up a useable link to your image I can take a look and probably give you a better answer.

  • Stef Prein

    May 8, 2011 at 2:52 pm

    Oh right… Here it is:

    wind.jpg

    But I already found a solution. I set the opacity to 1 instead of 5. That did the trick 🙂

    wind_good.jpg

    But thanks your reply!

    Stef Prein
    director/designer at StudioFets.
    Utrecht, The Netherlands
    http://www.studiofets.com

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