light linking inquiries

zombie420

I didn't realize it until testing, but it appears that light linking using channels allows me to dictate which objects are affected by which lights but no matter what I will always get a shadow from "unaffected" objects when I bake the lighting.



Perhaps I'm doing it wrong though. How do I correct this shadow?

sprunghunt

zombie420 wrote: »

Perhaps I'm doing it wrong though. How do I correct this shadow?

you can turn off shadow casting on the mesh itself.

Xendance

Doesn't shadow casting toggle only work with dynamic lights? Either way, another option would be a material based thing. Make the material masked and use the lightmass replace node to drive 0 (translucent) value into the transparency mask while using opaque value for the realtime option.

sprunghunt

Xendance wrote: »

Doesn't shadow casting toggle only work with dynamic lights? Either way, another option would be a material based thing. Make the material masked and use the lightmass replace node to drive 0 (translucent) value into the transparency mask while using opaque value for the realtime option.

If you turn it off on static shadows you can't get a shadow again without rebaking lights. But that doesn't mean you can't turn it off.