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A little Help On Casting A Shadow

Cool BlueCool Blue Posts: 38
edited December 1969 in Daz Studio Discussion

Yes:
This may seem a little simple to some of you, but I'm really stuck. LOL !! My question is, " How do you cast a shadow from an object in Daz 3d Studio.? " I know that it has to be in the Render settings, and that the object needs a light source of some kind. Please write back, and tell me this answer to my question. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks ever so much

Michael :-)

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,252
    edited December 1969

    You need to have the Shadow Type set to Ray-traced or Deep Shadow map on your light, and the object set to Cast Shadows (usually on by default) and something to catch the shadows.

  • AndySAndyS Posts: 1,438
    edited December 1969

    Hi Michael, Richard,

    ... and please keep in mind that you see the shadow and some further effects only in the render result.

    Andy

  • Ken OBanionKen OBanion Posts: 1,447
    edited December 1969

    Richard Haseltine said:
    You need to have the Shadow Type set to Ray-traced or Deep Shadow map on your light, and the object set to Cast Shadows (usually on by default) and something to catch the shadows.

    I am finding out that that is not always the case. For instance, in a render I did just a few minutes ago, I had to turn 'casts shadows' on for the Genesis 2 Female -- and there was no global setting for that, either (or if there is, I didn't see it); I had to go to every body part, and turn shadows on for each one.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,252
    edited December 1969

    Ken OBanion said:
    Richard Haseltine said:
    You need to have the Shadow Type set to Ray-traced or Deep Shadow map on your light, and the object set to Cast Shadows (usually on by default) and something to catch the shadows.

    I am finding out that that is not always the case. For instance, in a render I did just a few minutes ago, I had to turn 'casts shadows' on for the Genesis 2 Female -- and there was no global setting for that, either (or if there is, I didn't see it); I had to go to every body part, and turn shadows on for each one.

    Well, you can always expand the whole tree in the hierarchy, by right-clicking for example, click on the first, shift-click on the last and set the Cast Shadows property for all of them at once. However, for me Cast Shadows is on for G2F by default.

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