[Angela Ravi]

Hi Alex,

Thanks so much! Really appreciate the time taken to do a detailed video!

[Angela Ravi]

Thank you so much Ralph, This is very helpful!

[Angela Ravi]

ah, ok, I thought, the attractor object fixed this issue, sorry and thanks a ton!

[Angela Ravi]

I just tested the tutorial on a new file and it works fine, must be some weird settings in my other file, So issue sorted, Thanks!

[Angela Ravi]

Hi Justin, Thanks for trying to help, I’m just messing around and practising right now, so the file will look a mess for sure. I’ve attached it here. The pillow is just an image applied on a plane. Basically I want the gun to look like it’s resting on the photo of the pillow and what I’m trying to do is get the gun to ‘cast’ a shadow on the pillow. Not sure if there’s another way to achieve the same..

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[Angela Ravi]

I found a tutorial online for shadow catchers however it is a few years old and the interface looks different.. I’m on Cinema 4d S24 and latest version of Octane..

[Angela Ravi]

yes, the grid is on the plane (same size) that I’ve applied the shadow catcher too. It probably is the alpha like you are saying, I’m pretty sure it’s something basic but not sure how to stop this alpha channel from displaying in the Octane live viewer?

[Angela Ravi]

Thanks a lot Scott McGee. I used another method to get it to work from one of the previous answers posted on here. I’d already tried the ease method previously but couldn’t get it to work. So I used this method suggested by Oleg Pirogov from 2 weeks before for another user..

$.evalFile(‘PUT_YOUR_JSON_FILE_PATH_HERE’);

var dur = 0;

for (var i=0, len = arr.length; i=time) break;
}

i === len || i === len-1 ? arr[len-1].slider : linear(time, dur-arr[i].duration, dur, arr[i].slider, arr[i+1].slider);

(Jason file will be like below)
var arr = [{“ID”: 1, “slider”: 1000, “duration”: 4}, {“ID”: 2, “slider”:2000, “duration”: 4}, {“ID”: 3, “slider”: 3000, “duration”: 4}];

I applied this to the width property of the line/rectangle and it works.

[Angela Ravi]

Hi Kalleheikki,
Sorry if I wasn’t clear. Here’s a screen grab with the code attached to the separate nulls visible.

Thanks