• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Lighting Problem with shadow catcher

  Posted by Simon Huang on July 30, 2014 at 7:44 am

  hey guys, i am currently attempting to render a car in a scene. I have set up an area light above the car.

  When i render it, the shadow appears excellent which is fine in the render view. Infact, every time i render the scene with a plane, the shadow cast by the car is excellent.

  However, when i apply a “shadow catcher” to the plane, and render the image to the desktop, the shadow is horrendous. I think the shadow catcher seemed to absorb much of the shadow…

  Any ideas guys?

  Please click on the following links to view the images.

  https://postimg.org/image/bp5415cpx/

  https://postimg.org/image/wnb9z8ckl/

  thanks

  Adam Trachtenberg replied 11 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  July 30, 2014 at 12:48 pm

  What do you mean when you say you “apply a shadow catcher”? You’re using the shadow catcher plugin, or….?
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  Simon Huang

  July 31, 2014 at 4:11 am

  Sorry, i thought there was only one interpretation. What i mean is that i am using the “shadow catcher plugin” and that when i apply the shadow catcher “mat” onto the plane, the shadow cast by the car seems to lighten dramatically.
  I hope that makes sense now.

  Oh, and no GI or AO have been used.
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  July 31, 2014 at 3:42 pm

  Gotcha. Can’t recreate the problem here, though. Maybe you could post a scene where you just throw a cube in there in place of the car so we can see what’s going on?

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