bitmap trees strange shadows.

[Anonymous]

Hi you all.


Just a small question about a library part in AC 8.1

The bitmap trees are getting rectangular shadows in the rendering view area......I am not sure if there is some option to solve that problem.

It seems to me that in AC 7.0 bitmap objects turned automatically transparent ( rectangular are around the picture), but now....i am not getting any solution....

thank you all

best regards

[Karl Ottenstein]

Dan wrote:
I must, however, respectfully disagree with your "...DID cast proper shadows in 7.0 and before..." statement. I am 100% certain they did not.

Thanks for being so kind about my stupidity. I just verified that there are no proper shadows in 7.0R3 for the bitmap people or trees. I have no idea what I was remembering ... and didn't check since someone else had the same (mis)memory.

Best of luck with your object suite. 😉

Sorry again for having my facts wrong, folks.

Karl

[Anonymous]

Karl,

I think you were probably remembering some third party trees. I don't recall which, but I am sure there were some that worked (perhaps all of them). I have always used volumetric trees of one sort or another so my recollection of the billboard types is limited.

[Anonymous]

I have always used bitmap trees in Archicad 7.0 and the shadows always worked, by the way i must say that i used Av_works..as rendering engine.

The question is..that archicad is a great software...but look around....

Do you think it is acceptable that in version 8.0 we have the same rendering quality as in version 5.0.......there's no increase in quality.

rendering is the worse part of archicad, maybe in next version....we can dream on.