Spotlight or Shadow Caster with blunt beam angles generate patterned stripes on objects.

Finally took some time to submit to FT (3986) the issue, which was bugging me for some time. Sample project is at FT as well.

Here is a video shows that only Spotlight and Shadow Caster with Soft Shadow on, are causing this problem, while Direct light and Direct shadow do not.
At the end there is some temporary workaround until RL hopefully fix it.



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Hi all,

before submitting a ticket I wanna check here if the following issue has been already reported.
So, the problem is the following: I create a path and the new path appear in the scene window.
From this point, if I click over the name of the path in the scene window, then the new path simply disappear!
The way to keep it is to press F2 to make its name edit-able, then insert a new name and confirm.
This way the path remains.

Anybody else experienced the same ? Was it already reported ?

Cheers

  Roberto

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Roberto,

I don't use paths at all, but if I were you I'd hold off on reporting this.  Kai announced that one thing that was improved greatly in the next release was paths.  The way he described it, it sounds like they've been completely reworked.  So at the very least I'd wait for 7.3 (which should be imminent IIRC) and see if you can reproduce your problem.

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

At the end there is some temporary workaround until RL hopefully fix it.

I think you may have uncovered the mystery with your workaround... it's the 'plane' casting a shadow on itself - which explains why the lines are closer together closer to the light (and further apart as the angle increases).
Beware, the "solution" will probably be "if you see these artifacts, just disable the "cast shadows" on the affected object".

 Faceware and iClone are not connecting???
      Has anybody have this problem? I've tried resolving the issue on two different PC's and no luck. Faceware opens  and calibrates  but will say iClone: No connection.  iClone opens and captures body mocap but  it doesn't give me the Face mocap option. I can open the Motion live plugin but it will give an error of no connection with Faceware. All this is wierd since I was able to run Faceware just fine in trial versions on both PC's. I've also tried disarming the computers defenses, I've unistalled  and reinstalled even after repeating the process after cleaning the temp folders and registries.  

ANY IDEAS??? :(:(:(

That is quite a possibility (about self-casting) illusionLAB. Though I've seen some striped artifacts from adjacent objects intersected (but who knows). Now I certainly hope they fix it and would not refer to my pity solution, which is unacceptable in most cases. The FT status has changed to "Assigned" yesterday. Let us live to see.

One observation while I was making a project. The SpotShadow is nothing else but a SpotLight with Multiplier set to 0.

@RobertoColombo Yes, the path would disappear if you did not create at least 2 points for the path at the scene. I could not make it disappear otherwise. But then as KT mentioned, there are so many problems using current path implementation... better wait to see what RL is cooking for us in the next release.

 
ANY ideas?  Most likely Motion LIVE doesn't have a "trial" version of Faceware (it's a different thing than the Faceware plugin itself).  So I suspect you'll need to make a decision on the basis of the trial outside of LIVE.

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

I've just been working on a project for which I created two paths, and I haven't noticed this problem. Is this for a specific project or for any project?

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Did you just create the path, but did not set any "points" ?
You will have to set at least 2 "points" (Start + End) otherwise it is not a path and disappears if you want to enter the name...



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