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General Category => Anim8or v0.98 Discussion Forum => Topic started by: onespirit5777 on August 19, 2008, 08:20:29 pm

Title: Shadows are the same color as the light
Post by: onespirit5777 on August 19, 2008, 08:20:29 pm

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but the shadow that is being cast is the same color as the light. If I use two lights with different colors lets say yellow and blue. The blue light will cast a yellow shadow and the yellow light will cast a blue shadow.

Title: Re: Shadows are the same color as the light
Post by: RudySchneider on August 19, 2008, 09:58:10 pm

Uh, think about it!  The yellow light casts a shadow, which the blue light "fills," and vice-versa.  Also, it looks as if your lights and textures are too bright.  Tone it down a bit.

Title: Re: Shadows are the same color as the light
Post by: Thanos on August 30, 2008, 08:17:14 am

The shadow is the LOSS of the light: that means that if you have a blue light, its shadow should be... nothing, which is black. But since there is a yellow light to fill the "nothing", the shadow becomes yellow.
Yet there is a point: why the non-shadowed areas are white? See. We have a blue and a yellow light. Yellow is analysed in red and green, so: Red + Green + Blue = White.
[somehow what RudySchneider said, but with more "blah blah" :) ]

Title: Re: Shadows are the same color as the light
Post by: Steve on August 30, 2008, 06:52:45 pm

onespirit5777, as the other's have said, this is what is supposed to happen :)

Title: Re: Shadows are the same color as the light
Post by: onespirit5777 on August 31, 2008, 11:55:09 am

Thanks everyone and I hope this helps others that are new to this.