# Are shadows on translucent material really not possible?

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/are-shadows-on-translucent-material-really-not-possible/387188>\
**Category:** Rendering\
**Tags:** Water, Shadows, translucent, unreal-engine, transparency, Lighting, question\
**Created:** [March 7, 2017, 11:29am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/are-shadows-on-translucent-material-really-not-possible/387188 "2017-03-07T11:29:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![magerbeton](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@magerbeton](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/magerbeton)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 6:46pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/are-shadows-on-translucent-material-really-not-possible/387188/7 "2019-06-15T18:46:58Z")

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I fount a solution where shadows work on a translucent material.  
There is a shadow beneith the water surface and on the water surface… So its quite expensive to use.

Looks like that:

 ![279911-shadowbeniethwater.png](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/d/f/7/df7fb0cb4dd9a37618e88efe02018886ac0deff4.png)

And that is the one with the shadow on the water surface

 ![279912-shadowonandbeneithwater.png](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/c/1/d/c1d2584b0fe3c1fe035ea348ad39a9a1cee93949.png)

The key was this tutorial ^^:

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Hope this helps…  
~magerbeton

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