image fills not recieve shadows

[Anonymous]

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

many thanks

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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

disregard notes

[Karl Ottenstein]

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

[Anonymous]

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.