Transparent materials and shadows

[mlru]

Hi there,
I have a question regarding transparent materials like glasses.
no matter what I do, they always produce shadows like a solid material, which is very disturbing on windows or transmapped objects.
I'm using a pretty basic specular settings.
Is this a matter of my quite poorly GeForce 8500 GT (i have the latest drivers, though) or am I just missing something?

[SurfingAlien]

I think sunlight can't pass through glass (and transparent materials) atm (it will be fixed in one of the future beta release). please correct me if I'm wrong

[kubo]

use an HDRI instead and pathtracing

[mlru]

thanks for the replies.

use an HDRI instead and pathtracing

hmm, i'll try that although i don't see a reason why daylight and hdri should work different in this case.
i'd expect the same behavior, maybe just less noticeable....

[kubo]

it's because it's just sunlight which doesn't go thru translucent materials (glass or opacity mapped materials) enviroment maps do.