[How to?] : Gradient color Bckground

[iC4]

well the easiest way would be to render with an alpha channel and add the background later.

but you could also use a background material for your floor and use a texture as image plane (simple lambert material with a ramp assigned to it)

[flamedevil]

Ok i'll try the 2 methods, thanks :)

[Larsen]

Ok i understand the principle of removing the alpha channel but i encounter a problem, how can i take shadow and model in my alpha channel ?

thanks

[iC4]

create a nurbs or poly plane as a floor object. assign a "background shader" to it. set the specular and reflection settings from the background shader to 0. now you should have your shadow but no floor.

now just save as a iff, tiff or tga (they can contain the alpha channel), open it in photoshop and add the gradiant.

[Larsen]

Fine !
Thanks a lot for your help man !

[Gremlin]

you could just apply the "background shader" to the NURBS plane, then open up at the attributes for the persp camera, and put a ramp node in the "environment" tab..... thats an all-in-maya solution :D

[Larsen]

yup, that's what i was trying and it works very well.

thanks again

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