question about shadows

[giraffe]

hi I am very new to vray. I was making test renders for lighting studies.
I used a direct light with vray shadows in my scene.
when I turn on the area shodows option under vray shadows, the place of the shadows change.
can anyone explain me why this is happening?

[giraffe]

here are the images

[stephan_MA]

known thing.

just move the light far away from its target, then the difference is not noticable anymore.

regards
S.Wolf

[giraffe]

thanks
so is this a bug?

[Da_elf]

its not a bug. by default a direct light by its very nature is direct. so it wont have area shadows. so when you turn on area shadows it kinda makes your direct into a spot.like they said. moving it far back will help. heck. might as well as just use a spot to start with hehe

[holyghost]

Also try to reduce the dimension of the Area factor (dimensions)....
Valerio

[giraffe]

thank you all for the feed back