Overview

When standard lights are used instead of V-ray lights, the Ray Traced Shadows is the option to control shadows correctly for these.

Shadow Options

V-Ray offers the following option for controlling shadows:

• Ray Traced Shadows - Used to achieve raytraced shadows with standard 3ds Max lights and V-Ray. As well as supporting blurry (or area) shadows, they will also cast the correct shadows from any objects with V-Ray displacement, as well as from any transparent objects.

In most cases, the standard 3ds Max Ray Traced Shadows will not work with V-Ray. You must use the VRayShadow shadow generator instead.