shadow errors

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• Richard Haseltine Posts: 96,737

  November 2012 edited December 1969

  You probably need to lower the Shadow Bias - that's an offset, in cm, for the sahdow to avoid situations where a surface shadows itself - usually producing ugly banding - but it does mean that things that are close together may fail to show shadows at all. Try dropping the bias down to .1 initially.
• cosmo71 Posts: 3,609

  November 2012 edited December 1969

  Richard Haseltine said:

  You probably need to lower the Shadow Bias - that's an offset, in cm, for the sahdow to avoid situations where a surface shadows itself - usually producing ugly banding - but it does mean that things that are close together may fail to show shadows at all. Try dropping the bias down to .1 initially.

  hmm, shadow bias was 1 in this render and the distance between the top (shoulder / waistline) is more than a 1cm I guess. is there another value I can change for that? maybe in the main render settings?
• cosmo71 Posts: 3,609

  November 2012 edited December 1969

  ah maybe that was it, have changed the value of the shadow bias down to 0.25 and it seems in a first test, that the shadow is okay :)
• cosmo71 Posts: 3,609

  November 2012 edited December 1969

  thanks for the help richard, that was the problem :) I have tried also some things with shadow bias before but maybe in the wrong direction :) not lower but higher values :) my fault
• mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

  November 2012 edited December 1969

  Higher values make it creep more 'under the edge', so to speak...and if you go high enough you can almost reverse the direction of the shadow.