When will Cycles be able to do hard shadows?

Westonci · February 10, 2012, 10:50pm

I really like Blender Cycles, but one of the important features that its missing is hard shadows.

I know that you can composite hard shadows using blender Internal and the compositor, but its quite tricky to get the right kind of shadows and it takes a lot of trial and error to get the shadows right.

I really hope Cycles adds this feature some time in the future.

Piotr_Adamowicz · February 10, 2012, 10:51pm

In 5 seconds: add a lamp and set the size to 0.

Westonci · February 10, 2012, 11:11pm

it leaves too many path tracing fireflies

Piotr_Adamowicz · February 10, 2012, 11:14pm

That’s up to you to deal with. The shadows are hard. There is no such thing as a hard shadow in real life.

Westonci · February 10, 2012, 11:20pm

Please ignore my last post, it turns out I set the emission to high.

Thanks MadMinstrel

storm_st · February 10, 2012, 11:23pm

Set integrator Max Bounce = 0 and you get 0 fireflies, Cycles will work as BI only direct light shading.