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Turning on shadows
Shadows add realism to a scene, and in this lesson, help to demonstrate how
a scene rendered using Global Illumination differs from a scene rendered using
direct illumination.
To turn on shadows for the spotlight
1 Open the Hypershade window (Window > Rendering Editors >
Hypershade) and click on the Lights tab to display the lights in the scene.
The scene is lit with one spotlight named spotLightShape1.
2 In the Hypershade window, double-click the icon for spotLightShape1
to display the attributes for the spotlight.
3 In the Attribute Editor, click the spotLightShape1 tab to display the
lighting attributes for the spotlight. (You may need to minimize the
Hypershade window to see all of the Attribute Editor.)
4 In the Shadows section, open the Raytrace Shadow Attributes turn on
Use RayTrace Shadows. This turns on shadows for the spotlight.
5 Close the Attribute Editor and Hypershade window.
Rendering the image
When you render an image, all of the objects, lighting, shading materials, and
image quality settings are used to calculate the image, based on the particular
camera view that is set.
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