Why are the shadows of terrain pure black?

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![]I’m getting these weird black shadows with my rock material, the only thing that’s casting the shadow is the terrain, but that doesn’t explain why that part’s black and the rest of the shadow I can actually see through.1

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Build the lighting.

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do you use ambient occlusion in light or material?
sometimes it causes this