How To Get Shadows?

Maya
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I have a walking character that should cast a shadow onto a white surface. Now how do I do that? I have shadows on the character but not on the surface.
And how do I choose wich camera to render from?

Thank you

//Niina

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Niina,

FOR SHADOWS:
You need to look in the attribute editor for the surface object. Click on the object then (Crtl A) shortcut.
By default, lights and surfaces do not produce shadows. You have to check a tick box within the Attribute editor.

You can also type "surface shadow maya" into google and find out how this all works.

FOR CAMERA:
You need to look in the render globals options. There is a drop down menu for added cameras.

hope this helps....

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there are many different ways you can do it.
if u are using mental ray, turn on "raytracing".

look up "maya raytracing tutorials" on maya and u will find heaps of tutorials.