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Questions tagged [shadows]

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How can I have a light that casts no shadows?

Is it possible to light an object from three locations using emitters but only allow two of those emitters to cast a shadow from the object? I have an emitter from above, right and left. However, I do not want a shadow to be cast from the light on…
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Why are the 'Sun' shadows different to other light sources? Blender 2.8.1 Eevee

As you can see in the images below, the shadows cast from Sun are more accurate than ones cast from any other light type in Eevee. Why is this? Is there any way I can make a Point light cast shadows the same way as the sun, without enabling 'contact…
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How to get a crisp shadow from object using a spot light?

I am trying to get a crisp shadow from an object in blender using the spot light. I've noticed I can get that with a sun light, but I specifically need to use a spot light for what I am trying to do, and it comes out blurry. I've attached an image…
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Cloud has rectangle shadow

Cloud made by cloud generator has rectangle shadow:
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Odd shadows are jagged and spikey

Why are the shadows cast from a "point light" on the left hand side so jagged and spikey? The chest's lid demonstrates it best. I would expect a smoother line parallel with the castee. I can't understand how the fairly straight & smooth lines of the…
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How can I deal with a shadow that is distracting from text?

In my scene, I was rendering each area with light to make sure it looked good but came across a problem where the shadow from a picture was positioned in the middle of some text in the render. It seems very distracting and I want to avoid changing…
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Is there a way to make gradient shadows?

Fairly new Blender user here. I'm using Blender Render for this next project of mine and I'm wondering if there is a way to make smoother shadows for these arches. As you can see, within the arches, each block seems to get less dark, as opposed to…
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I have a problem with splitting an object

I'm doing an illusion kind of animation, where a rules is split in two and where the other part is closer to the camera than the other, but they should seem to be connected at first. The camera will slide showing that the two parts are actually not…
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Strange shadows on the model

I'm getting strange shadows on the model: the normals are ok (already tried to recalculate them) so I have no idea what this could be. Any suggestion?
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Shadow edges from object mode different from edit mode

Shadows are being smoothed around all vertices, like fake extra vertices exist around all real vertices. I don't want this (at least yet). This sort of happened to me, I must have misused some hotkey. Why is this behavior caused, and how can I fix…
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Is this normal?

I wonder if that´s normal. When I smooth my mesh it looks kinda odd. If it´s not supposed to do that...what am I doing wrong? How do I fix it?
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How to catch shadows which appear due to plane deformation, but make the plane transparent?

I'm making a "crater" (by deforming a plane), and I do not want the grey color of the plane to be present in the final render, i.e. I would like only deformation-caused shadows to be left, but make the plane transparent. I was expecting "shadow…
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Weird shadows, what is it?

weird shadows only on cylinders, how can i fix it? That happens when i always use spin mode
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Shadows from the background (EEVEE)

Can the background (environment map) generate soft shadows in the EEVEE renderer?
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Why does the shadow in my scene look like this?

I have been practicing Blender and I've been a fan of Dedouze so I'm trying to make an animation similar to his. However, after trying out his demo file and applying it to my scene, the shadows look different like they're not hitting a solid object…
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