Vray sun and diffuse shadows

[DaForce]

As Far As I Know

[dominiquelaksmana]

GOODNESS

[Neilg]

Dosch design AFAIK have pretty crap low range in their lower exposure levels

I wouldnt reccomend using them to light a scene without support lights in, but as far as a nice, useable range of colour goes, theyre pretty decent. I dont think i'd ever be happy to use a HDRI without a vray light to help it though, too little control.

[tricky]

Tricky, the reason why changing the size changes the shadow is the sun.. and vray lights.. are Area lights, so incease their area increase their area shadow. Therefore.. softness.

I now realise this. I assumed that the vraysun behaved differently as it is a 'physical' light, based on actual physics of the sun, and therefore couldn't be 'tweaked' in this way.