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rendering shadows problem
The problem that i have is when i render frames of my character i get jagged edges along the shadow lines (see attachment). I have rendered before and not had this problem and also have fiddled with the shadow settings of the ambient light and also the settings in render globals (raytracing shadows is on the highest setting)but cant seem to find the solution.
If anybody has any suggestions they would be much appreciated, thanks.
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Post the pic again and I will help you out.
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i will be able to post a wire tommorrow. Thanks for the response, much appreciated. i am not using a toon shader but did have one on originally. I think the normals are pretty normal but will check that. I am just using 2 ambient lights there. Will get back with you tommorrow with wire.
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ambient lights are the spawn of satan! Change them to directional lights. Bascially ambient lights will just flatten everything out and illuminate everything in the scene whether it's occluded or not. That will almost undoubtley be your problem 
Do you have shadow casting turned on for these lights? Ambient lights + shadows = major headaches!! 
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Will have a go with directional lights.
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Directional lights send light in from a direction (duh
!) and thus will not illuminate everything equally. They have proper shadow information and specular information etc. Take a look in the help docs for an explanation about the different types of light. But let me just reiterate ambient lights = bad!! Alan
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