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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?

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

use an HDRI instead and pathtracing

thanks for the replies.

kubo wrote: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....

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