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make a floor invisible and keep a shadow
how do I make a floor invisible but keep a shadow. I know how to do it on After Effects but not on C4D.
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is it live footage on the floor?
what material is under the floor, that you need to see?
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I tracked footage in PFhoe and export it to C4D, all the camera information is there. I added text and added a floor to crate the text shadow. Now I need to make the floor invisible but still be able to see the projected shadow.
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To make the floor inviible place a compositing tag on it and in the atttributes turn off “seen by camera” and make sure receive shadow is checked on.
Then to render seperate use a multi-pass render with shadows checked. It will come with a white background so just multiply it over the rest.
/randy
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I’ve done that and it’s not working. I was missing the multiply tag at render settings. But I’m still not getting a shadow.
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Then you need to use an object buffer instead.
Also in the composite tag and needs to be activted in the multi-pass./randy
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I’ve got the same problem. Is it a bug?
I’m on V10.1.1 Mac
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Mac Pro 2×3.2 Quadcore – 10.5.4 – QT 7.5 – 6MBram – nvidia8800GT – SATA internal & external storage – Blackmagic Multibridge Pro (v6.7)- Open GL 1.5.6 – Wacom Intous2 tablet -
No, you can use Shadow Catcher, create a texture uncheck everything, then turn on alpha, then add the texture as Shadow Catcher. Now drag the Texture to the Floor
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[Nathan Jang] “No, you can use Shadow Catcher, create a texture uncheck everything, then turn on alpha, then add the texture as Shadow Catcher. Now drag the Texture to the Floor”
Hi, I found this old thread because I started experimenting with Cinema 4D Lite today and I’m going crazy trying to find a way to make a layer behave like a shadow catcher. I can do that easily in Modo, Lightwave and After Effects, but all the Google results about this took me nowhere.
What you say here, can you please elaborate a little bit on that? I tried it, but you say “…then add the texture as Shadow Catcher.” I haven’t found a way to do that, and in the manual searching for shadow catcher doesn’t bring any results. Is it because I have the Lite version? It’s the one with CC 2014.
Sebastian R. Alvarez
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This should be all the information you need: https://www.grafxflow.co.uk/tutorials-and-tips/cinema-4d/shadow-catcher-plugin-in-cinema-4d/
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