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- On Mon, 10 Oct 1994 jhoward@cml.com wrote:
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- >
- > Recently, while dissolving on text as part of a logo (yeah, I know...;)
- > another logo...gotta pay the bills) animation, I found that the shadow map
- > doesn't dissolve on with the object, it pops on. Short of creating a
- > fake shadow - a black version of the object with soft edges- the only
- > other way I've been able to resolve this is with a whole re-render of
- > the scene and then compositing the two versions with a fade. Any
- > thoughts?
- > Also, when limiting the shadow map area, it seems to create a perfectly
- > cropped rectangle, even when I target the lights as directly as
- > possible.
- > I'm game for any eloquent solutions.
- > Jeff
- >
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- If you want fading shadows you are going to have to use ray-traced
- shadows, shadow maps have no degree of instensity.
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- Sean
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