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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?

    That's what I'd do.  Use ADPro & FRED/Compositor Anim-op to do the
dissolve, it's really very very fast.



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