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No deep shadows for Linearpointlight!!

Zev0Zev0 Posts: 7,045
edited December 1969 in The Commons

OK. What The hell. The linearpointlight does not emitt ANY deep shadows. But when raytrace is chosen it works. Anyone care to explain? Is this a bug? Why have the option to choose deep shadows if it does nothing?

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  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,945
    edited December 1969

    That's just the way linear point lights work (it bugged me that you get no error/info message when you select deep shadow map with them, like you do with the UberPoint lights ... so it can be done!).

  • Zev0Zev0 Posts: 7,045
    edited December 1969

    so what can be done? I'm confused by your post.

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,945
    edited December 1969

    Set the linear point lights you have to use ray-traced shadows if you wish them to cast shadows.

  • Zev0Zev0 Posts: 7,045
    edited December 1969

    Sigh I hate raytrace shadows.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 96,826
    edited December 1969

    Do you have to use a point light?

  • Zev0Zev0 Posts: 7,045
    edited December 1969

    Well, the thing is It gives a nice 360 lighting, and is easy to control. I only use it for internal scenes, and it gives me the lighting I am looking for. Is there an alternative type 360 light that gives deep shadows?

  • adamr001adamr001 Posts: 1,322
    edited December 1969

    Any light that utilizes falloff must use Raytracing. Since Linear Point Lights do, well, there ya go. Just like Uber Points. :)

  • Zev0Zev0 Posts: 7,045
    edited December 1969

    :( ok.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 96,826
    edited December 1969

    I'm not sure it's the fall off that the issue, but as far as I know all point lights in DS support only ray-traced shadows - spot and distant lights, which have a defined direction, do support mapped sahdows. If you are viewing only a limited part of the area the light will effect you could use a spot light (though you'd need uberSpot, or to go into Shader Mixer, to get fall off) since that too radiates from a point, with a limited angular spread.

  • Zev0Zev0 Posts: 7,045
    edited December 1969

    Whats different between uberspot and the regular spot in daz? I havent really touched the uberstuff yet..Or shader mixer. I'm scared its gonna break my brain:(

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 96,826
    edited December 1969

    The regular DS spot has no fall off at all - it just shines on to infinity. I assume, from your earlier comments, that you want the light to fall off with distance.

  • Mustakettu85Mustakettu85 Posts: 2,933
    edited December 1969

    There's also a hybrid point light in UberSoft Lighting Kit http://www.daz3d.com/shop/ubersoft-lighting-kit/ - though it's most likely using raytracing as well just by design (DSMs in 3Delight are essentially renders through a light as if it were a camera, and point lights are no cameras).
    On second thought... this is a hybrid point light that can merge into a direction light, so I have no idea as for the actual algorythm Omnifreaker used for it.


    Having said that, I hate raytraced shadows as well, but I've used USLK a lot and I like it very much. It's pretty fast and looks cool. Though the shadows it gives are quite soft (by design, again, hence the name), and I've had people point them out to me as "unrealistic" (yet to my NorthEuropean eyes they're quite alright, both for overcast day outdoor stuff and for interior stuff - my real life home also has very soft shadow lights...)

    The biggest downside of USLK, to me, is that I can't grasp how to make it shade low poly figures better (without faceting). And I like low poly...

    There's always an option of making an "inversed dome" of spotlights (like a hedgehog) to simulate a point light, but you'd need to check if 16 shadow maps are going to save you any time vs a raytraced shadow...

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