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Preventing Shadows in Renders

Fragg1960Fragg1960 Posts: 356
edited December 1969 in The Commons

This is going to sound like an unusual question.

I'm using Studio 4 (latest version) to do figure pose studies for sketching reference and I do not want any shadows to appear in the render. I'm just interested in the pose, not lighting the figure.

I have no lights in my scene and in the Window menu I clicked off "Preview Lights" thinking that would do it. However, I still get shadows in my figure render (they are non-directional, but still there).

Is there a way to get a render that is just fully lit with no shadows at all? Is there some kind of generic lighting render setting that I need to turn off somewhere? With no lights at all in the scene I would expect no shadows, so I'm a bit confused on how to do this.

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  • Herald of FireHerald of Fire Posts: 3,504
    edited December 1969

    If you disable all of the lights, Daz automatically creates a 'headlamp' for you which acts like a torch shining directly forward of the camera. If there was no light, you would see no image as everything would be black. What I would recommend is an all-over soft light. Use the UberEnvironment light and set it to 'Ambient (No Ray Tracing)' in the Environment mode dropdown under Parameters. This should eliminate shadows and prevent the headlamp from being enabled.

  • icprncssicprncss Posts: 3,694
    edited December 1969

    It's been awhile but can't you select each light and switch off cast shadows in parameters?

  • LycanthropeXLycanthropeX Posts: 2,287
    edited December 1969

    don't know Studio at all, but i know how to do this in Poser

  • RuphussRuphuss Posts: 2,631
    edited December 1969

    LycanthropeX said:
    don't know Studio at all, but i know how to do this in Poser

    usefull

  • TjebTjeb Posts: 507
    edited December 1969

    I could be wrong, but is this not the proper way:

    ShadowsOFF.jpg
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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,436
    edited December 1969

    There will be no cast shadows if there are no actual lights in the scene - I think what Fragg1960 is objecting to is the shading on the models, which isn't the same. That can be removed by setting the ambient colour to white and strength to 100%, though then of course you will lose all sense of form.

  • millighostmillighost Posts: 261
    edited December 1969

    Fragg1960 said:
    This is going to sound like an unusual question.

    I'm using Studio 4 (latest version) to do figure pose studies for sketching reference and I do not want any shadows to appear in the render. I'm just interested in the pose, not lighting the figure.

    I have no lights in my scene and in the Window menu I clicked off "Preview Lights" thinking that would do it. However, I still get shadows in my figure render (they are non-directional, but still there).

    Is there a way to get a render that is just fully lit with no shadows at all? Is there some kind of generic lighting render setting that I need to turn off somewhere? With no lights at all in the scene I would expect no shadows, so I'm a bit confused on how to do this.

    I think the easiest way is to load the UberEnvironment2 light into the scene and set its "Environment Mode" parameter to "Ambient (No Ray Tracing)". That way all shading is removed from the objects, but you still keep the diffuse color.

  • Fragg1960Fragg1960 Posts: 356
    edited December 1969

    Thanks for the feedback, all. I tried setting the Cast Shadows in Display to off, but it still gives shadows (even with no lights at all in the scene). I'll give the UberEnvironment solution a shot (I think that may work as it will probably provide even environmental lighting all around the figure). Again--thanks for the help. I'll post back if it worked in case anyone else is interested.

  • Fragg1960Fragg1960 Posts: 356
    edited December 1969

    The UberEnvironment solution comes the closest to getting the look I wanted. Thanks.

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