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#bitmap shadows?

    23-Feb-95 16:46:59
Sb: #155230-#bitmap shadows?
Fm: David Rhoten 71450,2654
To: Joe Miller 70544,2436
This is disturbing! Jonaaaaaaas!!!! I wish for Shadows in non-camera viewports! The reason is, I've been contemplating rendering some TOP views of sites w/ shadows for presentations. Generally, when an architect/landscape architect colors up a site plan for presentation, he/she draws cast shadows on it — and I was hoping to replicate this. I imagine I COULD put a camera very far away and do a Render/Blowup to try to approximate an axonometric image (as opposed to the intense three-point perspective that a normal aerial camera would produce, but….