Weird Shadow

[marcdevon]

Dear Group,

I have a weird shadow in one of my renderings. The shadow for the ash tree seen below isn't right. Does anyone know what's causing this?

[tct70]

Are you sure the tree is grounded and not floating?

[MoonDoggie]

yeah, looks like it's just floating to me too.

[timmatron]

Hey what did you use for your grass? It's really nice. I've been going back & forth today trying to find something I like & something that works.

[marcdevon]

yeah, looks like it's just floating to me too.

oops!! I looked at this model 100 times and I didn't even see that.

[marcdevon]

Hey what did you use for your grass? It's really nice. I've been going back & forth today trying to find something I like & something that works.

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1.../Grass1680.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...ementmap02.jpg

Notes:

Diffuse map was reduced from its original 6000 x 6000 size rendered in the image above to a 1680 x 1680 size (photobucket max size)
Diffuse map was scaled to ~ 8.2m x 8.2m area in the rendering
Displacement map was scaled to ~ 13.55 cm x 13.55 cm area in the rendering

Adjust the parameters to suit your taste. Let me know how it works out for you.