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Nellucnaiv:
Hi all, I've always used ART to render but now making a cartoon and like the less complicated results scanline produces for this purpose and super quick rendering times. Just wondered if shadow rendering is possible on scanline or any way of producing them? Really appreciate some advice here thank you,
Ian

AlecJames:
I only used shadows a few months ago and I'm forgetting already!

Yes you can have shadows using scan line.  The light needs to be set to casts shadows  and to "ray trace" in advanced properties, the objects' properties need to be set to casts shadows / receives shadows. 

There's lots of info in the manual chapter 7, scene editor.

I think that scanline shadows are more versatile than ART.

Nellucnaiv:
Thanks for the response Alec. I appreciate it. I have set objects to cast and receive shadows and the light to Ray trace but find it's not working for me. It only seems to work in ART. Is there maybe a setting or something I'm missing? I'll check out the manual as well.
Thanks again! :)

AlecJames:
Is the light a local or spot?  (not infinite)

The attached casts a show in scene mode, camera view, scan line render.  If it doesn't for you then it's going to get interesting.  If it does then hopefully you'll see the different setting.

thecolclough:
there's also a master switch buried in the menus... in v1.0 you go View > Preferences, which brings up a dialogue, and then in the File Output box at the bottom there's a checkbox marked 'Shadows' - make sure that's set to on.  i think it's the same path if you're using an earlier version.

not really sure why that File Output stuff is under the View menu and not the Render one.

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