topic Re: image fills not recieve shadows in Modeling

image fills not recieve shadows

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:36:39 GMT

Hi Guys,
is there a way for image fills to recieve shadows in elevations?

many thanks

Re: image fills not recieve shadows

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:03:52 GMT

I would assume that they would receive shadows automatically (assuming shadows are turned on). Or do you mean to cast shadows?

Re: image fills not recieve shadows

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:19:22 GMT

the grey slate on the wall is the image fill that cannot recieve shadows,.

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Re: image fills not recieve shadows

Karl Ottenstein — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 02:38:11 GMT

Image-type fills (a 2D element) cannot receive shadows - only 3D elements can do so.

While you can set up an elevation to show the material color and fill linework, with shadows, you cannot have the elevation tool generate an image that shows the texture (image) assigned to materials.

In order to get shadow casting on a rendered elevation, you have to use an axo view in the 3D window - either OpenGL shadow casting, or a rendered image. You then have to fake the scaling, and if annotation is required you'll have to overlay an annotation drawing. Or some such workaround.

Karl

Re: image fills not recieve shadows

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 03:58:30 GMT

ok thanks for the help guys, i thouight i was missing a check box or something. they do hide them in the most strange places sometimes.