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Are you using mental ray shadows?

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all those wired black things on the bottem right. I have no idea why it is there like that, It never used to do it with that lighting, there is no objects there.:confused: I am going to try again on my computer at home when I get there. Maybe its something with the computers here :?

I am using shadow map on global settings. This did this after I changed a few materials on an object in the back, but I tried deleting them but that didnt work either.

Happens in all resolutions, even with out one of the lights.

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We had that problem when we were using Mental Ray lights w/shadows but the Scanline renderer. Try using the Mental Ray renderer.

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You can try playing around with the shadow map parameters, switch to raytrace shadows, or switch to a different renderer.

I have never encountered this error before, although it almost looks like your floor plane is too close to your grass plane (that probably isn't the problem).

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well mental tray only supports raytraced and shadow map (and I have been rendering with mental ray) I just tryed it with ray traced and it is waaaay to dark. This is a really wierd error :ahh: its what it looks like when you have 2 objects on top of each other too close, but I dont think thats it, I tried adjusting things and it didnt work. Actuaklly not iw looks like its part of the shadow from the building ? Im gonna try going back to a previous save...

And its not a probliem with the materials. When I take out the light (IES Sun) it goes to normal (but no lights)

The sunlight system seems to work fine except it does something wired outside of the building with shadow map on :/

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Is there any place you could post the Max file so we could try to debugg it?

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Rendershare!! I just suddenly remembered it!

http://rendershare.aztekera.com/

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I ended up using the skylight with Raytrace shadows plus an omni in the back. Looks a lot better and the probliem is not there. Also what is that render share?

Ill edit this with a picture. If you want to old max file (or this one) I can upload it to the same place I uploaded the picture, but I think its good for the most part.

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I'm having some problems with mirroring. If I use the mirror tool, it will not let me edit th part I have mirrored, for instance, I cannot put materials on top of it.

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make sure its not instanced. Mirrored as in the whole object into a new object?

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No, as in making one side of an object that I've extruded exactly the same as another.

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I am not quite understanding what your probliem is, if you could post a quick screen shot that would help.

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Nevermind, It's been solved, thanks for your help anyway.

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LOL I forgot I left it up!
RenderShare wasn't a total waste - I repurposed the codebase for a small news content-management system for our school's newspaper.

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Your, uh, windows look funny. The ones on the left. The wall looks paper thin, as if it was a sloppy boolean construction or you have normals issues.