how to make a floor invisible but receive shadow?

[slouchcorp]

i think the easist way would be to render out as multipass have all the elements seperate layers.

HTH mike.

[phobos]

Give the floor a render tag.Not seen by camera and also receive shadows.
All that you can find them on the object manager menu

[greekdish]

Or I guess you can have a WHITE floor, with a rendering pass of just the floor and shadow, and then in Photoshop, composite as a Multiply layer. This way you can blur the drop shadow, and adjust darkness to need without having to re-render.

[LucentDreams]

Or make the image a materil, apply it a s frontal on both the background and the flor, now no matter what angle your at it will look right, and no other app needed no fancy tags, just simple clean rendering. Frontal tag can do some really nice effct stuff.

[bry]

Hi,

I usually do it like Kaiskai said, he just forgot to mention that you should add a render tag to the sky and floor objects with Compositing Background checked.


bry

[LucentDreams]

Originally posted by bry
Hi,

I usually do it like Kaiskai said, he just forgot to mention that you should add a render tag to the sky and floor objects with Compositing Background checked.


bry

MMMM yes my mistake its been a while without the composite checked you will run into the issue of of the outer edges of the sky and the horizon of the floor getting dark.

[michaeli]

Thanks, everybody.:beer:

[Grey]

amazing what you learn in this place :D

[michaeli]

I've tried phobos' way, the shadow doesn't appear although I checked the receive shadow from the render tag, what's wrong with my operation?

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