Hi everyone! I am new to Autodesk Fusion 360 and I have a problem in rendering a model. I am using the most update version now (2.0.2676) running on Windows 8.
I have a block model here that I want to render. If I look from the tutorial video, there should be a shadow of the model on the ground.
Thank you very much for your help.
Hi @Anonymous,
Check your render settings and make sure that you have the ground plane turned on.
If the box next to Ground Plane is not checked there is nothing to project a shadow on.
Hope that helps,
Colin
You can see in his posted screen shots that the ground plane is turned on. I wonder if the ground plane in the render is above his part.....
Phil Procario Jr.
Owner, Laser & CNC Creations
@Anonymous
Can you post your model file here so we can look at it?
Phil Procario Jr.
Owner, Laser & CNC Creations
@Anonymous, also if you are using an environment that only casts a light down on the part (like cool light, grid light or soft light) and you move the environment up you may lose the shadow.
I know it shouldn't happen but it does. I just had it happen the other day twice.....
Phil Procario Jr.
Owner, Laser & CNC Creations
Hi @colin.smith and @PhilProcarioJr thank you for replying my post. Sorry I was a little busy a few days ago.
I'm sorry I have deleted my file, but I created a new one and still the problem persists. This is the link to my model : http://a360.co/2jl02QC
@colin.smith, I have ticked the ground plane as you can see in my screenshot. The environment lighting that I use is "Sharp Light" I don't know if it only casts a light down on the part. This is the image of the new model I have made, I have lowered the ground plane so you can see if the cast-down-lighting is working well, the shadow should appear (but it doesn't)
@Anonymous
Can you post your gfx diagnostics here? The reason I ask is because the shadow showed up right away for me.
Phil Procario Jr.
Owner, Laser & CNC Creations
@colin.smith @PhilProcarioJr I think I have found the solution.
In that Graphics Diagnostics window, under the Troubleshooting dropdown, there is an option to "Limit effects to optimize performance". In my default setting, that option was ticked so the Anti Aliasing, Ambient Occlusion, Ground Shadow, and Ground Reflection was OFF. Now I unticked that option and all of those parameters are turned ON and I can have my ground shadow now. I think that solves the problem.
Thank you very much for your help!
@Anonymous
Even though that fixed your problem.
Is your GFX card memory correct? Because that's not much at all.....and if this is correct switch to directx 9
Next update your GFX driver it's way out of date.
Phil Procario Jr.
Owner, Laser & CNC Creations
@Anonymous
Also you can find the shadow settings at the bottom of your viewport.
Phil Procario Jr.
Owner, Laser & CNC Creations
@PhilProcarioJr I have updated my NVIDIA driver however the GPU memory size still does not change. I tried to open dxdiag and the result there is pretty strange.
In the Device segment, my Nvidia Geforce GT 740 is not detected, however the total memory size is about 2 GB (which is correct compare to the Nvidia GeForce GT 740's specification).
On the other hand, in the Fusion's Hardware information, the memory size is still 128 MB only.
Do you know how to fix this? Is this a problem for my rendering process? I wish I could run the render in my graphic card's full performance which is 2 GB.
@Anonymous
Renders don't use your gpu memory or your gpu so that doesn't mater. Your gpu and gpu memory are only used for viewport display and performance.
Does your system use shared memory for the system and gfx?
ANY ideas why his gpu memory is wrong but it says it is using his gpu?
Phil Procario Jr.
Owner, Laser & CNC Creations
