I am using a faded plane to create a sharp reflection on a gloss surface. The only problem is, I cannot get the floor shadow to turn off. I have "enable floor shadows" unchecked but the shadow is still there where the plane intersects the ground plane.
No. The plane in question was created in SolidWorks Visualize via the create model tool.
Neil,
I've never seen this... can you share with us just the scene with the plane that gives you that shadow?
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hmm,.. I see your post here but not seeing your post on the normal forums and/so nothing was attached?
what?!... that is/was interesting.. with my reply, I now can see your post... strange?
and/btw,.. Visualize is NOT my forte (still learning).. so, someone else needs to chime in here, please.
anyhow... no takers yet,.. I'll take a stab... so, this is what I found which get's rid of it.. but may not be desired for your needs?
Tools/Options/3D Viewport/Fast Rendering Mode/Fast Mode Shadow (set on)
Aug 9, 2016 11:18 AM
Hi Neil,
The issue is that your plane you created in Visualize is intersecting the 'fake' ground, resulting in a shadow. If you have "Floor Shadows" in the Scenes Tab unchecked, then your plane and all other geometry will not cast a shadow.
Try moving your 'faded' plane up a bit so it doesn't intersect with the 'fake' ground.
Brian, even after moving the plane up so it is not intersecting the floor, it still casts a shadow. See imagaes below. So the plane intersecting the fake ground plane is not the issue. The issue is that "Floor Shadows" has to be unchecked in the Scenes tab to get rid of all shadows.
The bigger issue is that Solidworks Visualize is apparently unable to turn off shadows for Faded geometry, while leaving shadows for fully visible geometry. If this is possible and someone knows how to do it, other than splicing multiple images in post, please let me know.
Hi Neil,
the preview options are for the raster mode only.You can turn shadows off in the environment tab >floor shadow.
But all shadows are turned off then! If you want to see the real object shadow but not the plane shadow,you have to render
twice.Shadow on + off and paint a layer mask in photoshop.
Would be a cool feature, if you could toogle between on-off in a future release,because this behaviour often makes trouble when using
objects for emissive lights.
Aug 9, 2016 2:12 PM
Hi Neil,
Faded geometry will always cast a shadow and also a floor reflection. Shadows cannot be turned off for individual models, just as a global setting affecting all geometry.
There is no plan to enable/disable shadows for specific objects in the model tree, as this goes against what you can do in the real world...which Visualize has always tried to emulate with the least number of settings. But i do see where you are coming from.....
As Peter said, the only way to achieve this now is to post the 2 renders together in PSD or something equivalent.
You can get creative, and move the faded plane out away from the Viewport of the camera, which will move its cast shadow out from the final render as well. That's the trick i always use
Hi Neil, Did you find a solution? I have the same issue with shadows, I need a high quality render with a plain white background (no shadows) for a sales brochure.
Hi
You may change Opacity of this faded part to 0 and this should works.
