Shadows missing from rendered display mode

Hello - I guess we should see the file - if you make a new file with a box and a plane, do you get shadows? Is the Rendered mode set at defaults?

If a new file at defaults shows shadows please post a small, if possible, file that does not show shadows, to tech@mcneel.com, we’ll take a look.

-Pascal

Can you try something simple first…just to see if shadows are completely broken…

  1. Start Rhino

  2. Draw a box

  3. In the Perspective view, set it to Rendered.

  4. What do you see? Screenshot please.

  5. Go to the Render Tab and UNCHECK Skylight (see image).
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  6. Now what do you see in the Prespective view?

-Jeff

Did this ever get completely resolved? I’m trying to work on a sundial ring prototype for a client and I’d like to demonstrate the effect. I have the entire ring set to not self illuminated and I’ve boosted the memory used for shadows. Both Sun and skylight are off, per images below.


Here’s what I get in in the rendered screen…

Here’s this…

And this…

Hello - what happens if you make the ring material non-reflective?

-Pascal

Hi All,
For me there is no “Use accelerated hardware mode” option at all… I went into the OpenGL folder in preferences but the page only shows “Appearance Settings” and “Video Hardware & Driver Settings.” Any advice?

Thanks in advance!

The accelerated hardware setting was a V4 and V5 thing. It’s not exposed in V6.

I do see that @gary2’s GeForce drivers are quite old.
Since shadows are an OpenGL think, I’d be updating the drivers.

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