shadow visibility does not work

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miohn
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Hi,

I have a plane with a blackbody emission material as a lightsource.
And a octane object tag assigned to the plane.
I always get a shadow from that plane casted on the ground
even if I turn off "Shadow visibility" (Camera visibility works as it should)
shadow_visibility_on.JPG
shadow_visibility_off.JPG

Latest Version 3.05.1

Any idear?

thanks
Mike
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ultranerd
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Same problem here. I would also like to know how i can exlude particluar objects from generating Shadows?
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Hi guys,
which kernel are you using?
Maybe is the Ambient Occlusion effect?
p.s. latest version is v3.05.3 ;)
viewtopic.php?f=85&t=58047
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miohn
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Hi Beppe,

I'm using PT
Lightplane is far away from the floor, so is don't think thats from AO.

It is a setup from an earlier project (maybe one year ago) and that has
worked before.
I'll try with 3.05.5 Version.

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Weird, here it seems to work as expected :roll:
Screen Shot 2017-02-06 at 17.04.59.jpg
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miohn
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Hi Beppe,

its not the shadow from another object, its the shadow from the plane itself
which has the emission material applied.

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Mike
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miohn
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Hi Beppe,

its not the shadow from another object, its the shadow from the plane itself
which has the emission material applied.

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Mike
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miohn
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so this cannot be fixed?

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Putting a scene would be great to show expectations and what that is not working. I can't see anything wrong here with shadow visibility. But as i can see there's a problem with general visibility. Plugin ignores that objects when "general_visibility=0". It's about some optimisation for generating less meshes for case but this is not fine for emissive geometries.
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miohn
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Hi Ahmet,

thanks for your feedback!

" It's about some optimisation for generating less meshes for case but this is not fine for emissive geometries."

So what does this mean in my case?
I do need to find another solution to get rid of these shadows?
Because I need the reflections of that lightplanes on the object, but
not the shadows on the floor.

Old problem: We really need lights include/exclude option!

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Mike
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