Shadow question?

[innerdream]

I have area shadows on all of my lights. The columns seem to have quite a bit of black. Am I doing something wrong? The lights are in the fixtures and a sun coming in from the right.

[Horhe]

Seems to me that your collumns are reflecting the black areas with no light on the celing

[innerdream]

I think you're right. I'm going to turn down the saturation on those colors and see if that doesn't help, it looks more like color bleed now that I look again.

[Horhe]

Still think its reflection of the collumns. Try turning off the reflection and then trying to render a region with the issue.

[innerdream]

Still think its reflection of the collumns. Try turning off the reflection and then trying to render a region with the issue.

 

The white material of the cols. doesn't have reflections turned on.

 

That render region function is sweet, how'd I live without it...

Edited November 15, 2008 by innerdream

[innerdream]

That didn't work. Now the shadow is more black than red though.

[Horhe]

Change your shadow opacity to a lower level. Or try a different shadow type.

Another thing is upping the ambient light in the scene to try and dim the sucker out a bit.

[Horhe]

...or get the shadows on a seperate pass and compose later. Ulitmately you can alter this in a post processing package. Best of course to eliminate it at source.

[Horhe]

What about the hotspot and falloff values of the lights? Perphaps increase the falloff cone so that it includes more space and the collumns.

[innerdream]

Thanks Jakub. I'll try all of that.

 

It's amazing to me how different each render engine I try behaves so different since the math behind them is similar.

Edited November 15, 2008 by innerdream