Hi everyone, I hope you are all doing well. I am recently learning Blender and it is new to me. the version I am using now is 4.2.3 LTS so the options I can work with is different than what is shown in the video. I can not control the shadows the way the instructor shows. can you please help me with this?
on more thing, I have accidentally deleted the original light during the first lessons and in this lesson 13, I added a point light but it sees ineffective no matter how I raise it’s watt (luminosity). I would be grateful if you could guide me on this also.
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What course are you doing?
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the name of the course is: Blender Character Creator for Video Games (Updated to 4.2) by Grant Abbitt.
Section 1, Lesson 13, around 3:50 the rendering menu on the right, is very different than my version. I don’t have those options to control the shadows on my character. may be the main reason I don’t have those shadows is my point light source the I previously explained what happened to it?
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You are using “Viewport shading” mode?
- Try to render de the scene (f12) and see if there are differences?
“Viewport shading” mode has a simpler setting that the real render!
The “Outliner panel” does show all the objects (lights).
- It can be so that the lamp has been switched off when rendered (camera icon must be active)
- Turn off temporally the hdmi world setting (trying to, step by step, figuring out whats goes wrong)
- Lights and other objects can be hidden (H-Key) ~ or the ‘/’-key, focus on that selected object only.
- Lights and other object types can be switched off in the ‘selectabillity & visibility’ icon dropdown
show us the complete “Outliner panel”
As a beginner, do not wander off too much on the lessons. Trying things out, because you can …
Then often you select the wrong combinations and or hotkeys and get into trouble.
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Have you got Scene Lights ticked?
Adding back the same type of light you deleted will work just the same as the deleted one.
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Thank you so much. I appreciate your helpful response. I checked my render and I found the missing shadows in it, seems it is just not showing inside the Blender itself!
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Thank you very much. yes it seems the problem is only in the preview that I see in the software. when I rendered the shadows were in the place they supposed to be.
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Some shadows and reflections depend on the render method you use. Just out of curiosity, which one are you using?
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