Absence of soft shadows

JoeyCarbo

Hey all, I'm running into a problem;

I have a building which has various point light sources and a physical sun and sky. However, all point light source shadows seem to be very hard and not soft. Any tips / settings / tutorials that I should use in order to have soft shadows?



I'm also working with mia_material glass presets.

Rendering with mental ray:

These settings are applied to all lights in my scene:


Point interpolation is set to 100



Also this is my first help topic here, incase there is some sort of tech questions thread already, I couldn't find it.

Thanks in advance.

Stromberg90

Don't have much knowledge about mental ray, but my guess would be changing the light radius to something higher than 0.

.Wiki

Stromberg90 wrote: »

Don't have much knowledge about mental ray, but my guess would be changing the light radius to something higher than 0.

Correct, the light needs volume to emit soft shadows.

JoeyCarbo

Tried it and it fixed it all! Thank ya'll