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getting shadow to show for characters

taraque2013taraque2013 Posts: 79
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HI, I haven't use Daz 3D in awhile.  Now that I am ready, I'm having problems with my characters not casting shadows.  I have cast shadow set to on in the parameters panel.  Seems like something pretty simple, yet I can figure it out.  will somebody please help me

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  • BeeMKayBeeMKay Posts: 7,019

    Are you using Iray render engine, or 3Delight render engine?

  • taraque2013taraque2013 Posts: 79

    My profie picture is how things used to work.  Shadows galore.  i'm using 3delight.  But the shadows aren't even showing when I bring my character out to a scene.  I don't understand.  And that Iray...  I don't even understand that at all.

  • Sven DullahSven Dullah Posts: 7,621
    taraque2013 said:

    HI, I haven't use Daz 3D in awhile.  Now that I am ready, I'm having problems with my characters not casting shadows.  I have cast shadow set to on in the parameters panel.  Seems like something pretty simple, yet I can figure it out.  will somebody please help me

    The Ds standard lights have shadows off by default. Select the light, go to parameters pane and find shadow type, set it to raytraced.

  • BeeMKayBeeMKay Posts: 7,019
    taraque2013 said:

    My profie picture is how things used to work.  Shadows galore.  i'm using 3delight.  But the shadows aren't even showing when I bring my character out to a scene.  I don't understand.  And that Iray...  I don't even understand that at all.

    Question: Have you newly installed DAz Studio, the Version is higher but 4.8? Because if yes, then the default render engine is new set to Iray. You would have to switch it to 3Delight in the render settings. After that, the lights are behaving as Sven Dullah said.

  • taraque2013taraque2013 Posts: 79

    thxs a lot.

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