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So I'm in the Render room, and mysteriously it puts an excessive shadow on something that it shouldn't.  I've tried re-importing the model and the associated textures.  I have a separate 3D coat file with just the numbers, and it renders just fine!  I also axed the frame that surrounds the number, just in case some invisible part of it was casting a shadow (Spoiler alert: it wasn't).  

So maybe you guys have encountered this before.  While you guys deliberate, I'm going to try using the non-cuda version and checking my topology on everything again just in case there's some invisible polygon getting all rapey on my shadows.

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Correct, no back-faces are wrong side out.  

The botched shadows are cured if I hide a large portion of the model.  I think it's possible that bad topology may be causing this unnecessary shadow to appear, but I'm still bamboozled about the fact that it's only impacting the "4." 

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Solved the problem!  The shadow system in 3D-Coat's renderer didn't like the topology of my "4" so it turned it jet black out of spite.  To fix this here's what I did:

1. Triangulated the "4"

2. Brought it back into 3DC and repainted it.

3. No more rogue shadows! 

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I am just wondering what  is the other program you used for  all the numbers  and was it  just its Text or you made the #s. Hard to see but it looked as if that #4  was outward curved as the other # s looked to be slightly inward. Glad you solved it.

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