# how to make soft shadow with default light

**URL:** <https://forums.chaos.com/t/how-to-make-soft-shadow-with-default-light/35744>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [July 22, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/how-to-make-soft-shadow-with-default-light/35744 "2010-07-22T23:25:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![jason.dong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/22d042/32.png) [@jason.dong](https://forums.chaos.com/u/jason.dong)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/how-to-make-soft-shadow-with-default-light/35744/1 "2010-07-22T23:25:11Z")

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since vray sky always make my picture blue, I prefer use default light, u can control where the shadow falls more easily, but u cannot set up area shadow for default light, that’s anoying. any trick?

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**Author:** ![dkendig](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/dkendig/32/41793_2.png) [@dkendig](https://forums.chaos.com/u/dkendig)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/how-to-make-soft-shadow-with-default-light/35744/2 "2010-07-23T02:06:06Z")

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Re: how to make soft shadow with default light

the default light is actually the sun, so if you set a texSky and choose the sun, you can control the settings. Then when you unset the texSky, I believe the sun will retain the settings, and you should be able to just render with the default light on, with all the settings the sun had.

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**Author:** ![jason.dong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/22d042/32.png) [@jason.dong](https://forums.chaos.com/u/jason.dong)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 10:19pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/how-to-make-soft-shadow-with-default-light/35744/3 "2010-07-23T22:19:00Z")

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Re: how to make soft shadow with default light

that’s great trick, thanks