Trying to understand shadows in Blender

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I am trying to understand shadows using the internal blender render engine. I have rendered the same scene in both BI and YAFRAY, the output from YAFRAY creates the shadows on the flat surface as I am hoping, but using the BI there are no shadows created on the flat surface.

The scene consists of a Terrain Mesh, the flat surface mesh and a SUN lamp as well as the two monkeys.

Any pointers to why I don’t get the shadows in BI.

Is it to do with the clipping setting on the camera?

Thanks for any help

Cheers

David

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Sun Lamps create Ray Traced shadows only. So make sure you have the Ray button selected when Rendering and that your Sub lamp has Ray Shadows turned on.

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yep shadow in Sun lamp tab and Shadow and Ray in render tabs.

claas