Shadows aren't received by components
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I've got some components in a model that will cast shadows but not receive them. Anyone have a fix for this? Is it normal or is there some sort of setting I'm missing. In the Model Info box, they are set to receive shadows by the way.
-Brodie
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If you right click the components, entity info then heck the little box that says 'recieve shadows' that should do it.
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faceme components don't receive shadows 8-(
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Tom, I never knew that! I just checked, and even though the entity info is set for eache to "receive shadows, it won't. I also checked inside the component to see if the face itself is set to receive shadows, and it is, but it won't!) Interesting. I can't think of a good reason why that would be so, though.
BTW, if the compoenent is "painted" with a material that is less than 70% opaque, it will neither cast nor receive shadows.
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Hrm...little more info as the problem persists...
The problem is occuring w/ some 3D plants. I played around a bit and the shadows work perfectly (both cast and received shadows from and on the plants respectively) in monochrome mode. I think they worked in color mode as well, but when I turned textures on the shadows disappeared (only the plant shadows, all other shadows in the model remain). Then if I turned off the layer my building is on the plant shadows came back on.
So my guess is that it perhaps has something to do w/ the complexity of the model? Maybe after it has to compute so many shadows it just tries to conserve its energy by turning the shadows off the more complex parts? Does that make any sense? I'd hoped that it was only a screen problem but exporting a jpg resulted in the same issue.
Any other thoughts?
-Brodie
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what you are describing was a bug an SketchUp 6 several releases ago. Are you certain you have the latest updates? Make sure you are working on the most current version.
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@sorgesu said:
what you are describing was a bug an SketchUp 6 several releases ago. Are you certain you have the latest updates? Make sure you are working on the most current version.
I'm running 6.4.112 I just tried Help -> Check for Updates and it said I'm running the latest. Is there a later version than this?
-Brodie
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That is the most recent. Could you upload the model so we can just look at it?
Chris
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