# C4D - Question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/c4d-question/64759>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [September 19, 2004, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/c4d-question/64759 "2004-09-19T18:09:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Coppertop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@Coppertop](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Coppertop)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/c4d-question/64759/1 "2004-09-19T18:09:36Z")

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Alright, I’m experimenting with C4D, and I keep getting this little thing, (seen below) basically, when I have two surfaces intersecting, and a light set to “soft” shadow, it gives me this look sometimes. Does anyone know why, and how I might fix this?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/c4d-question/64759/2 "2004-09-19T18:31:18Z")

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i had this bug too, but it wouldn’t go away…

try changing the shadow map resolution to something much higher…

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 6:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/c4d-question/64759/3 "2004-09-19T18:48:58Z")

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I’ve been doing that, but it makes the shadows smaller that I would like, and the problem doesn’t go away, it just gets smaller. Oh, if only eGeek was here.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 6:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/c4d-question/64759/4 "2004-09-19T18:58:40Z")

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can you post your .c4d ?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/c4d-question/64759/5 "2004-09-19T19:08:34Z")

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et le voilà! (right now the shadow map is set to 1kx1k, and I have an extra light hanging around that goes with an extra texture (the green one) that when used together make a really cool radioactive nuclear sludge effect.)

edit: the shadow map was originally at 250, when I took the picture above, since I’ve changed it, the problem has shrank, but so have the shadows, which is my problem.