How do I access an object's "Casts Shadow"/Receives Shadow" properties programmatically?

I am rendering an animation using Julio Piacentino's RenderAnimation component which works just fine, but I would like to turn off the shadow properties for the baked objects.My hope is that there is some kind of property I have to set on the object, but browsing the SDK I did not find anything shadow-related.

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 25, 2014 at 11:33am

That'll be RDK related, plus I don't think shadow casting receiving is possible in Rhino render so it may not be exposed as a native SDK property. If you're talking about the Brazil shadow settings, then I can't even change those using only the command line. The Brazil option in the -_Properties command erroneously opens the material settings.

Permalink Reply by Mario Klingemann on August 25, 2014 at 12:01pm

Thanks for the quick reply! I'm using the Rhino rendererer but since I am still new at this I don't know which are the right places to look for this. So I guess it's not possible to uncheck these two boxes via the command line (and sorry, it's a German version)?

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 25, 2014 at 12:36pm

Oh goody, haven't seen those before. Well, those are at least accessible via the command line. Whether or not you can get at those via RhinoCommon I don't know, you'll have to ask on our discourse forum I'm afraid....

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on August 26, 2014 at 3:06am

Yes. You can do it from the command line.

-properties object castsShadows no receivesShadows no enter enter

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 26, 2014 at 3:27am

Or, on German Rhino:

-_Properties _Object _CastsShadows _No _ReceivesShadows _No _Enter _Enter

Permalink Reply by Mario Klingemann on August 26, 2014 at 4:28am

Ah fantastic - that works. In the RenderAnimation I just need to add a "SelAll" command before that line and it applies it to all baked objects. Thanks!

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