Shadow Density

Deprecated Krakatoa 1.0 Beta Discussion
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Trying out the shadow density in beta 4, but it’s not doing what I was expecting (sorry).



Could we have the lights use the shadow density multiplier from EACH light individually? From what I understand (and I could be way off) each light renders its shadow map independantly. Meaning you could set the density per shadow map render. If that is true, I’d like control over that.



As it is now, I can only set the opacity of the particles once for ALL the lights. The problem I was having, which prompted the request, was that the shadow map size was exerting too much influence over the density. But my shadow maps are set per light, so I’m getting some lights with super dense shadows and some lights with super wimpy shadows.


  • Chad
2

Trying .9.8.25681.



The lighting pass density is all greyed out. How do I activate it?


  • Chad
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  1. Check >Use Lighting
  2. Uncheck >Use Final Pass Density For Lighting Pass

    RESULT: Lighting Pass Controls should be enabled



    If you are seeing anything else or feel this is counter-intuitive, please let us know.





    Borislav “Bobo” Petrov

    Technical Director 3D VFX

    Frantic Films Winnipeg
4

Btw, Shadow Density Per Light is still on our TODO list.



Cheers,



Borislav “Bobo” Petrov

Technical Director 3D VFX

Frantic Films Winnipeg

5

The Use Final Pass Density button is greyed out (in the ON position).


  • Chad
6

Even when you turn on >Use Lighting?

It should get enabled when you check Use Lighting, otherwise with Lighting off it makes no sense.

Cheers,

Borislav "Bobo" Petrov
Technical Director 3D VFX
Frantic Films Winnipeg

7

Use Lighting doesn’t change it at all. It’s grey either way.


  • Chad
8

Looks like a bug - if you uncheck and check Lighting, it should get enabled.

If you change color source AFTER that, it gets disabled again.



Or do you see another case where it remains disabled forever?



Cheers,



Borislav “Bobo” Petrov

Technical Director 3D VFX

Frantic Films Winnipeg

9

Oh, swell. That workaround does the trick. Thank you.


  • Chad