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I got an instance with a clipped material in it. But the shadow of it is blocks the sunlight ...

It looks correct if I don't render it as an instance:


That worked fine with V2, is it a bug in v3 (running 3.0.0.3)?

I investigated a bit further and found out that this is not an issue of instances, because I didn't have this problem in another file.

But in the above case, my instance had an opacity of 50% which caused the problem.


from left to right:
no instance, 100% opacity
instance, 100% opacity
instance, 50% opacity
no instance, 50% opacity

This means that objects that use a clip map texture don't work correctly if you also apply an opacity to them.
I guess this would be a bug then ...

Thanks a lot for the clear tests, I can confirm this bug. It only shows if the opacity is 50% or less, is that the same for you? if you set it at 51% for example then the shadow looks ok.

Yes, that is the same here - 51% work fine!
Thx, Christoph