how can i make lights get blocked by objects? i have tried all types of light but can’t figure it out. for example the porch light on my house lights everything even directly around the corner. i put a light in a pumpkin but it leaks right through the wall of the pumpkin rather than only shining through the opening. what lamp type and settings am i missing? I’m using the old blender render
Do you have shadows turned on? That is my first guess. The shadows need to be turned on at the light, and the render settings need to have shadows enabled. If you use ray shadows, you also need to turn on ray tracing in the render settings.
wow it had “no shadows” selected. thanks that fixed it