Floor Shadows

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Hi guys,

What would be the best approach to get shadows similar to Rhino’s Rendered view in the Shapediver viewer? They ground objects so nicely.

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Rhino viewport and ShapeDiver viewer use different rendering engines so you won’t get exactly the same but you can achieve similar effect with these steps:

  • switch on the ambient occlusion
  • switch off shadows
  • use only one ambient light in your scene
  • set environment to white in model settings
  • fine tune the material (metalness around 0.1, roughness around 0.9) and use light gray colour instead of white to compensate for over-exposed areas
  • mimic the ground shadows effect with a texture map, learn this and more tricks in the tutorial below

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Thanks for all the suggestions and the clear tutorial. I’ll give it a try!