No Cast Shadows in Maya 2016 (student)

[Anonymous]

Legit, I've been doing very well exploring this program but the lighting is going to be the death of me.

I cannot get any type of cast shadows what so ever. I can't find the option for Raytracing Quality anywhere.

here's what i have os far. All shadows are checked, use raytracing shadows are checked, still nothing. Please help me!

[damaggio]

You are looking at the viewport , the render should be coming out just fine, to see shadows in viewport look in the panel bar Lighting and enable shadow and press 7

[damaggio]

And always look at the render, don't go much by what you see in the viewport, the technology is not quite there yet... Use the IPR function

[Anonymous]

Hey! thanks for the reply! but even in the render view, there are no shadows. When I save the render, there still are no shadows!

[damaggio]

Okay , lets try this for rendering Render Settings>Quality make sure first box is checked"Show advanced settings"  scroll down to Legacy options and see if Raytracing is enabled , and back near the top Advanced lighting Sampling enable Final Gathering.

For viewport shadow watch Darrl's video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r62cK57_BT0

Please use Mental ray for rendering your scene...let me know how it goes...good luck.

[damaggio]

If you were using Maya software the raytracing option is under Raytracing quality, you can use Maya to render but is not a professional quality renderer and has many limitations.