Subject: Re: Modeling text.
From: David Warner <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 01:32:25 -0800

On Wed, 28 Feb 1996, Adrian Onsen - ASNG/F94 wrote:

> 	How do you light up some objects in the foreground (i.e. my text) 
> and have them create a dark shadow.

Don't use real shadows...just put in a copy of your text with a totally 
black surface, no diffusity, no specularity.  You'll be able to position 
the "shadow" exactly where you want it to be.  Maybe even change it's 
thickness to .001 or something very small to flatten out the shadow.

                                     -David Warner
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