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Re: Toolbag 4 - Ray Traced Shadow Artefacts
@Sidney Eliot Generally speaking, these shadow issues are fundamental to all renderers, not specific to Toolbag. There are some tricks that can be done in raster rendering engines to soften shadow faceting somewhat, but as you note in the last part of your post it's a problem there too. The software can only render shadows… -
Re: Toolbag 4 - Ray Traced Shadow Artefacts
One more example: Top to bottom: - Base lighting - Shadow casting disabled. Since there are not any other objects in the scene to cast shadows on the hippo, this simulates turning off self-shadowing. With no self-shadowing, the body doesn't shadow the legs, the upper jaw doesn't shadow the inside of the mouth, the back… -
Re: Toolbag 4 - Ray Traced Shadow Artefacts
Now, let's say you can't edit the topology for whatever reason. You're not necessarily out of luck. Here's an example: From left to right: - Base lighting. - The Diameter setting in the Area/Shape panel for the lights has been increased, this converts the light into an area light which softens the shadows and makes them… -
Re: Toolbag 4 - Ray Traced Shadow Artefacts
Just going to add my experience,i feel either the lights have to have an added power "numeric" so example, currently its 0.000 i think an additional space + 0 to lighting so that we can get 0.0000 spaces values to play with will fix a lot of the "issues" or patch it till another more accurate solution can be "found". If… -
Re: Toolbag 4 - Ray Traced Shadow Artefacts
Just wanted to add my own experience with this issue: I'm still in the process of finding out best practices in regard to this issue and will keep this post updated when I find out new things. Btw, the official term for this problem is "Shadow Terminator Atrifact". --- Adding sub-division level in Marmoset This solution is…
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