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Increasing jitter blends the individual shadow samples.
Area Light Dimensions group
The software uses these dimensions to compute the area shadowing. They do
not affect the actual light object.
Length Sets the length of the area shadow.
Width Sets the width of the area shadow.
Height Sets the height of the area shadow.
mental ray Shadow Map Rollout
Create panel > Lights > Create a light. > General Parameters rollout > Shadows
group > Select “mental ray Shadow Map shadows.” > mental ray Shadow Map
rollout
Choosing “mental ray Shadow Map” as the shadow type tells the mental ray
renderer
on page 6230 to generate shadows using the mental ray shadow-map
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