turning on shadows produces a black render.

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I seem to have this one in a new project.

when i want to implement fakeGI and turn on shadows the render will go black, while without the shadows setting the render is good.

What could be wrong?

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how are your lamp settings for ClipSta and ClipEnd

I think everything is beyond your clipEnd

try selecting one of the lamps, and pressing [control]+[numpad 0] to make it your camera

can you see anything through it?

change your clip values so that you can

select you camera, and press [control]+[numpad 0] again, then try rendering

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yeah, your absolutely right, about a half a hour after posting this i also discoverd it.

din’t knew about the camera thing though :slight_smile:
could be helpfull.

btw, another fakeGI specific question.

is it neceserry to have a spotlight right above your object so that all the other lamps will point towards your object. (with the duplivert + rot techniek (dunno if there is another realy))

i think it’s quite often making the shadows go away for some reason.
(i do have shadows turned on offcourse)