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#flashing shadow

    07-Sep-94 10:59:40
Sb: #122479-#flashing shadow
Fm: David J. Marks 72172,1036
To: Christopher Martin 73561,615
>> Could the problem be in the SHADOW-BIAS-ABSOLUTE setting in the 3DS.SET >> file? I ran into appearing/disappearing shadows that were corrected by that setting. I believe the problem occurs in scenes that have a fairly large amount of changing geometry. In my case, I had a robot and conveyors in a large room. As the arm swung from position A to position B, and objects were hid/unhid with hide keys, shadows would appear/disappear in other parts of the scene. SHADOW-BIAS-ABSOLUTE=ON helped in this case, but required me to adjust my shadow casting parameters. – Dave