Shadows, Radiosity & Curves.

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Howdy,

I’ve bleen playing around with radiosity, and I have a question or two.

http://68.41.90.70/images/shadows.jpg

How can I get rid of those triangular shadows?

I was using a curve and then converted to a mesh.
Can I make blender calculate the shadow map indefinitely? I am using straight up radiosity settings, no tweaks.

Thanks,
Chest

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How can I get rid of those triangular shadows?

Radiosity is face based, so I would suggest using one or two shots of Beauty subdivision before running the radiosity solution.

  • In the Edit buttons, select Beauty
  • Select each face of the curve (the flat side) in turns, and hit Subdivide (Wkey, 1) once or twice.

Can I make blender calculate the shadow map indefinitely? I am using straight up radiosity settings, no tweaks.

I think that if you lower the Convergence setting, the ray will bounce more times, hence making the simulation longer.

Martin

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What a freaky looking Blender! How come it looks like that?

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hmm…

for those shadow artifacts in Radiosity,
it is also possible to play with the buttons:

FaceFilter and Element Filter

I have done it with great result !

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Thanks for the help guys. Here’s one more:

http://68.41.90.70/images/blender_shot2.jpg

Doesn’t that shadow look strange? Normal shadows don’t look like that.
Looks like it’s inverted.
What’s up with that?

Straight settings once again.

It’s the enlightenment desktop, Jolly!

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Reduce the distance between ClipSta and ClipEnd.

Explanation: no idea. :-?

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That did it Tordat, thanks!

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I seem to be having this same kind of problem myself in radiosity shadows so i’m bringing this message back to top.