No Shadows?

[visualmusic.4]

I'm having a very strange situation with a max file that I've been given from another client. I've added lighting (it's an exterior shot) but cannot get ANY shadows casted whatsoever. I've tried every lighting solution I can think of and still no luck. From standard lights, to photometric and radiosity solutions still no luck. Cast shadows is checked. I even applied a general white phong material to everything in the scene and still no dice - so it can't be the materials. What can I be missing?

 

Any help would be appreciated. I'm totally perplexed...

 

Thanks everyone!

[jason_s]

check the scale of your model.......if it is very small it happens to not cast shadows.

[visualmusic.4]

Thanks Jason. The land mass is about 2,800'x4,000' so it's pretty big. Man this is crazy. All I want is a light to cast simple shadows! Weird.

[jason_s]

try scaling up the model a lot and see if you get shadows......that was once the answer to a similar problem i had........i had prepared the model in cad brought it over, lighted it and no shadows...and it was the scale of the thing.

[ajvbochove]

I think you already checked, but maybe:

 

Render Scene (F10)

Shadows & Displacement

Enable must be checked.

 

or

 

Maybe your geometrie properties are changed to not to cast shadows

[visualmusic.4]

Yes! That's it. This wasn't checked. Looks like the client had changed a bunch of settings in the render scene window. I went down to the bottom and changed back to the default presets and started fresh. Now it's all going smoothly.

Thanks for your help!