Advanced 3D can't enable spot lights to cast shadows

Forum|Forum|4 months ago
January 18, 2026
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The advanced 3D description and AE support page both say that advanced 3D now casts shadows from spot and parallel lights, but the option is greyed out. Is this a bug in the current main release, showing information from the beta that isn't actually supported yet?

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And yes it is checked on in this example but only because I had it turned on when testing environment lights. If I turn it off on environment it turns off in the greyed out spot light as well. See working environment shadows vs no spot light shadows for proof:

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Error or problem

VictoriaNece

Community Manager

Which version are you on? Spot and parallel shadows are available in Advanced 3D in version 26.0 which came out this week.

AbbottoklusAuthor

Inspiring

I literally just now got the option to update to 26.0 lol so that will probably fix it.

ShiveringCactus

Community Expert

I'd noticed the same thing with parallel lights. While @nishu_kush @gets the team on the case, I have found that the beta release does work. You could try that.

AbbottoklusAuthor

Inspiring

It's all good I faked it well enough for the shot to work. Just wanted the team to be aware of the bug!

nishu_kush

Legend

That's not ideal. Thanks for reporting. I'll let the team know about it.

Thanks,
Nishu

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