Cinema 4D question

• CyBrain

  I know there's a way to have a floor object accept shadows, but not show in a render, so you only see the shadow. Any idea how that's done?

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• CALLES0

  fuck with the two dots on the side... the ones that turn green and red

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• harlequino0

  ^applicable to both C4D rendering properties and most battery powered sex toys

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• CyBrain0

  The answer was to do a multi pass render with shadows as an alpha channel. Then use that alpha channel to fill with black into a new transparent layer.

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• lambsy0

  you can do this with a compositing tag.

  there's little checkboxes in there in which you can tell it to not render the object, only it's shadow.
  

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  • This was a great option. Thanks. There were a lot more options in that tag than I expected too.CyBrain

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• KwesiJ0

  i don't use c4d but there's usually always an option to render just shadows for an object in 3d apps

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• demafleez0

  try this:

  http://www.maxoncomputer.com/tut…

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  • I've always wanted to know how to make a fake garbage canLlyod
  • just being a dickLlyod

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• tile0

  dunno for c4d, but in max there's a standard matte material which will render transparent, except for the shadows it receives.

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