Is there a known problem with AO shadowing and material transparency?
As can be seen below AO shadows aren’t showing properly here behind an object with a transparent material mapped onto it:
It works ok with shadows turned off:
Is there a known problem with AO shadowing and material transparency?
As can be seen below AO shadows aren’t showing properly here behind an object with a transparent material mapped onto it:
It works ok with shadows turned off:
Hi @djhg,
This is happening due to the way Rendered mode’s shadows interact with transparent objects. You can adjust the “Transparent objects” slider in the Shadows options to get the effect you want. Drag it more to the left and the shadows should disappear. Alternatively, you can make the object more transparent.
We need to work on this in the future so that we don’t need slider in the first place.
-David
Thankyou David, but I’m finding that adjustment to have an effect only on materials which have a transparency assigned to them in their totality. In my case here the transparency is present on a colour channel in the material’s mapped texture bitmap, and the slider isn’t changing anything there.