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Troubleshoot fur shadows flickering
Troubleshoot mental ray for Maya shadows
Troubleshoot depth map shadow quality with rapid scanline rendering
Troubleshoot soft shadows
do not render correctly when Simple Shadow Method is used
If you select Simple as
your Shadow Method (under mental
ray tabs, Quality tab, Shadows section),
you are limited to only one shadow ray per light source. Soft shadows,
however, require more than one shadow ray to be cast and volume
shadowing must be applied to each ray to obtain proper soft shadows
from volumes, particles or fluids.
Workaround
Select the Segments Shadow
Method instead.