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Soft/blurry raytraced shadows (again)

DonleavyDonleavy Posts: 34
edited December 1969 in Carrara Discussion

Hello all

Sorry - but I don't quite get it.

How can I achieve shadows that are blurry/very soft (like the shadow buffer's shadows) - with raytraced shadows?
Is it something about an extra light source to smooth out the shadows? How exactly is this done?

I hope you can help!
Dl

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  • stu sutcliffestu sutcliffe Posts: 274
    edited November 2013

    Select the light and go to the light effects tab top right. Click on "Shadow"-- "Enable soft shadows" You can play around with the size here.the bigger the number, the softer the shadow.
    If you are using a distant light, the number usually has to be really large.Try a spotlight and make the number 1 foot and take it from there.
    Though I think a it may depend on your scene size.I try to use real world sizes, so If i have a man in the scene he will be about 6 foot tall not 60 feet!

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  • DonleavyDonleavy Posts: 34
    edited December 1969

    Thank you! It's a distant light, and the high values (light radius) did the trick.

  • ringo monfortringo monfort Posts: 945
    edited December 1969

    Donleavy said:
    Thank you! It's a distant light, and the high values (light radius) did the trick.

    For distant light I use 1000 gives very nice shadows.

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