Mental Ray -Render Pass/Elements

[Glacierise]

I second that request :)

[visionmaster2]

me too ! :)

i need to render a hair pass WITH the shadow on the object, or a different pass with the hair shadow casting on the object. do you have a nice idea for that ? in mental ray or in scanline.

[Glacierise]

What I used was a render without the hair, then matte everything, and do a hair pass and a shadow passm from render elements. In the hair render effect, used 'none'.

[visionmaster2]

yes, that is what i use too. But i cant have good shadows .
look at the shadow pass on the pict.
there are a lot of "self" shadows on the model : eyes, ear, nose.
i have uncheked the self cast shadow on the head on this pict but the light affect it .

its ok for a basic comp in photoshop, i can correct it. but i need hair to animate the model..
must i delete manualy all the bad shadow ??

please dont say : Yes !

:scream: :)

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/4463/hairrrrgggrrr1ky6.jpg

[MrElmo]

http://www.rpmanager.com/ :thumbsup: but it will cost a bit

[Glacierise]

Umm, so you don't want your hair to self-shadow, or you don't want it to shadow the matte? If it's the second one, just uncheck the matte's recieve shadows. If it's the first - exclude the hair proxy from the shadow generating light maybe.

[visionmaster2]

MrElmo thank you for the rpmanager link. ill take a look of it and download the demo.

Glacierise, what i want is, to have only a pass of the hair shadows that are on the head.

so i want : hair self shadow, and its work good

hair shadow the matte, and its not good. there are a lot of shadows that come from the head itself and not from the hair !

sorry for my bad english ;)

[Glacierise]

Then turn off 'cast shadows' in the object properties dialog ;)

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