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Casting a shadow from an invisble object.
I usually get my answers from the archives ( what a resource! ) but I can’t seem to narrow my search this time to get the suggestions I need. So…,
simply put, I want to have a light shine on an object and have the cast shadow from that object actually be the shadow of an invisible 2nd object.
I having some difficulty pulling the effect off.
Any suggestions or search phrases ( other then cast shadow 🙂 would greatly be appreciated.
Thanks,Shawn
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not sure if i entirely understand your needs – but you can make a layer cast shadows ONLY – in which case it will disappear and cast a shadow – it’s in the material options of each 3d layer
Then all your other layers can be set to not cast shadows.
does that help?
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Yes, that’s pretty much it. I’ve looked at that panel for hours before and never even saw that. Thanks – sorry for taking up bandwidth 🙂
PS – If anyone else reads this thread and has a sugguestion on the topic, please post.
What I’m doing is casting a shadow of a working class man who has the shadow of a superhero – cape and all! What to make it look as “real” as possible. -
I dont know if this would work or not, but what if you tried bringing the original object off the actual screen, put the light source outside of the object in relation to the visible screen, and just cast the shaddow from an extreme angle so the “invisible” object is actually just off the screen.
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Also, Radial Shaddow is a great effect to use. You just apply it directly to the source layer and it leaves a very nice shaddow (you can adjust the blurriness to zero to get a crisp shaddow). Then, uncheck the box (i forget the name) that controls whether or not the actual image is shown or not.
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