Transparent plane recieving shadows?

t0m_smyk0wski

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Transparent plane recieving shadows?

Hi guys,

haven't been here in a while... long time no see ;)

I think I might have asked this before, still I am curious - maybe some additional features have been implemented by Martin in the mean time or someone created a skript!?

Anyway, here's my question:

Is there a possibility to create a plane or any geometry and have a material applied to it that is completely invisible BUT that recieves a shadow?

With other software I used to create 3d stuff, then putting it into a photograph.
The said functionality was useful to (re-)create shadows similar to the ones in the photograph, adding reality to the whole scene.

Is there any feature that could do this for me?!


Thanks a bunch guys!
cheers,
Bernd a.k.a. t0m smyk0wski
 
Awesome!

Thanks a lot Frank ... so now I'll wait patiently - until then I'd have to go back to the 95% transparency trick ;)

Cheers,
Bernd
 
t0m_smyk0wski said:
Hi guys,

haven't been here in a while... long time no see ;)

I think I might have asked this before, still I am curious - maybe some additional features have been implemented by Martin in the mean time or someone created a skript!?

Anyway, here's my question:

Is there a possibility to create a plane or any geometry and have a material applied to it that is completely invisible BUT that recieves a shadow?

With other software I used to create 3d stuff, then putting it into a photograph.
The said functionality was useful to (re-)create shadows similar to the ones in the photograph, adding reality to the whole scene.

Is there any feature that could do this for me?!


Thanks a bunch guys!
cheers,
Bernd a.k.a. t0m smyk0wski
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t0m,

Hello, again. I'm trying to understand your question. Can you give an example? Although v5 is supposed to come out soon, I may be able to come up with an idea to help, now.
 
alvordr said:
t0m,

Hello, again. I'm trying to understand your question. Can you give an example? Although v5 is supposed to come out soon, I may be able to come up with an idea to help, now.
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Hi Robert,

methinks he means this, kinda 3D photoshop drop shadow.
 
I've posted this answer a lot of times now -- you render against the plane and against nothing, then difference the two renders in Photoshop (or Pixelmator or whatever) to recover the shadow.
 
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