> High!
> 
> Originally, I intended to reveal this only at a more advanced stage... 
> but I got stuck with the shadows. I aimed at blurred shadows for the two 
> lines of text, so I used a fairly large area_light made up of 50  by 50 
> single lights. But then I found it very difficult if not impossible to 
> make them *really* blurred - if I just enlarge the area light, shadows 
> become thinner and thinner until they disappear completely, which is 
> just logical. On the other hand, increasing the number of single lights 
> does not help either, it just bogs down the CPU. Even at these 
> comperatively moderate settings, the shadows of the lower line disappear...
> 
> Is there a way to blur shadows without post-processing at all?

I've found that using the area_light with jitter turned on, and with 
anti-aliasing set in the render will produce a soft shadow.  For speed 
use the adaptive option in the area_light.  This may produce splotching, 
which you can reduce by raising the adaptivity level.

Regards,
John

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