Shadow Catcher — Accepts Shadows “Only – Disabled” — Can’t get rid of plane visibility

[Drew Pern]

help. please.

[Ricardo Caco]

An old thread (and you probably already solved it by yourself), but since I got here…

It’s a limitation of the render mode. “CINEMA 4D” renderer doesn’t support it.
Your option is to change the renderer to “Classic 3D” or “Ray-traced 3D”.

Also, it only worked for me with a opaque background: a solid layer or a footage / image behind. (Otherwise, the shadow catcher will appear pure black.)

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Cheers!

[Roei Tzoref]

there’s a way to get the shadow catcher if you precompose the 3d scene and use one with a white solid with the shadow as the only layer in the precomp, and the duplicate of that precomp with all the rest… think of as creating a shadow pass.

now in the master comp use the shadow comp in multiply.

you can make this setup more elegant using master properties. this way it’s the same precomp with one instance with the shadow pass and the other with just the object.

here’s an example:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n9mrqcNGt1VMJW_HzvbvQ3L7I4lxuW9m/view?usp=drivesdk

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