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General => Terragen Discussion => Topic started by: mundus on October 01, 2013, 04:14:13 PM

Title: Disable rays or cloud shadows
Post by: mundus on October 01, 2013, 04:14:13 PM
Been banging my head against the keyboard for some hours now. I'm trying to render the scene without any visible dark rays or shadows coming from the base of the clouds. Does anyone know how to disable them?

Thanks,
M
Title: Re: Disable rays or cloud shadows
Post by: Dune on October 02, 2013, 03:02:21 AM
If you have a sun and clouds, they will have shadows in the atmosphere/haze. I don't think you can turn that off totally, and if you disable secondary (in the cloud) there will be no internal shadows in the clouds either. Reducing haze would be the best bet, I guess. But what I see are mostly reflected clouds in the water. If you make the water completely without waves you loose the vertical stripes. You might want that only in the distance where striping is strongest (distance shader). Hope this helps a bit.
Or you could use a reflective shader and only a transparent water shader with some waves for the front (using a distance shader again).
Title: Re: Disable rays or cloud shadows
Post by: mundus on October 02, 2013, 03:37:01 PM
Thanks Dune, will give those a go and post back in a couple days  :)
Title: Re: Disable rays or cloud shadows
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