Shadow in my interior scene

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Permalink Reply by Dana Berry on March 9, 2014 at 6:15pm

Actually these are not shadows but rather random areas that are not being rendered for the lights in the room. Definitely hard line areas that are dark.

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on March 10, 2014 at 8:20am

Make sure you give the model enough passes to let the lighting appear in the dark area.

Can you upload an image so we can wee what is happening?

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Permalink Reply by brooks john on March 11, 2014 at 12:39am

just a question are you using texture map any of your surfaces?

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Permalink Reply by Dana Berry on March 11, 2014 at 7:57am

Thanks Al for you input. I have re-rendered for 9 hours / 185 passes with the same result. I am sending you the result images. Also sending an image that had no problems. Link to the model:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/qvxb02zmv0yrt6s/Model%2004a1.skp

John-I have not used texture maps.

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Permalink Reply by Dana Berry on March 12, 2014 at 9:35am

Looks like I found the problem. It is a sketchup problem not nXt. For some reason the entire floor layer has become a solid object in lieu of planes and surfaces. When I try exploding it creates again some weird surfaces. The solution seems to be redrawing the original floor layer. Anyone have an idea what I may have done or sketchup done to create this merging of surfaces? I do have several textures on the layer that all use a photo image. Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Dana Berry on March 12, 2014 at 10:36am

Further discovery is that the layer has all its edges smoothed. This may have happened inadvertently while intentionally smoothing another surface (lock layers not being used ....... ) Problem solved! 

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