Help! My lights are going through objects!

Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2

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# 1 19-06-2003 , 05:39 AM

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hi,~ I've been trying to put a spot light and casting through objects, but somehow, even though I've turned on used depth map shaodws, the light still goes through. i've been using Render instead of IPR render, refreshed it many times, but nothing seems to block the light is there something wrong with what i've modelled?

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# 2 19-06-2003 , 12:20 PM

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have you tried to look at your objects' attribute, maybe they are not casting shadows, turn on casts shadow in their render stats attribute.

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# 3 20-06-2003 , 12:50 AM

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Light still going through!

thanks for the reply, but every object in my scene got cast shadows turned on in the render stats...i still got light going through the desk i modelled...

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# 4 20-06-2003 , 02:06 AM

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strange. Have you tried opening a new file and seeing if it's just that file or something to do with maya as a whole?

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# 5 20-06-2003 , 03:54 AM

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or could you attach your file so that we might look at it?

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# 6 20-06-2003 , 05:53 AM

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sorry! I am still a newbie to this site, where do i go for uploading the file?

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# 7 20-06-2003 , 08:19 AM

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click post reply button, go to attach file, browse your scene file.

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# 8 20-06-2003 , 09:17 AM

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Thanks~ If you can look at it for me that will be great ~

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# 9 20-06-2003 , 03:21 PM

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you should try messing around with the decay rates of the spotlight. Also create an intensity curve for the spot light and mess around with the curve in the graph editor. The problem is not the light itself but the fog goes through the surface. I checked out your file and messed around with and got it going.

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