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  • shadows query

    Posted by Chris Brett on October 14, 2012 at 2:44 pm

    Hi — having problems getting soft shadows on extruded 3D shapes.

    Shapes are generated by importing AI file / then generate shape from layer ( delete AI file etc ) —

    All goes according to plan until I go to the ‘shadow diffuse’ option and it does nothing …

    Looks like a bug to me anybody know the answer to this one please?

    Chris

    Erik Waluska replied 13 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Erik Waluska

    October 14, 2012 at 3:26 pm

    It’s working fine for me. If your ray-tracing quality (comp settings>advanced>options) is set to 1 (draft) then diffusion is disabled so you’ll need to set it to something higher. 8 works pretty well without slowing things down too much.

  • Chris Brett

    October 14, 2012 at 3:36 pm

    OK thanks Eric – will check it —-chris–

  • Chris Brett

    October 14, 2012 at 4:36 pm

    …. thanks Eric —– spot on – cheers — chris —

  • Erik Waluska

    October 14, 2012 at 5:18 pm

    You’re welcome, Chris. Glad you got it worked out now.

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