Blender internal - pure white plane with shadows/gloss

Question

I'm trying to do something like this in Blender internal renderer:

Here are some Cycles-solution using, which I'm trying to replicate in Internal:

• How do I make a pure white plane that receives shadows?

• Render shadow on transparent background with Blender Render

I will be making something very simple, with bouncing balls etc, so I don't need the realistic features of Cycles, and like the render speed of Internal.

So how would I do to make everything white, and only cast simple shadows? So it's kind of like a light box, with only my objects in focus.

I've tried make a bent plane, but it doesn't look white.

I also tried a white Horizon color but this affects the lighting in the scene.

I appreciate any help, and if you can point me to some good material/lighting tutorials for Blender Internal, it would really help. It's so hard to google it, due to the generic name, and most tutorials I can find is using Cycles.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You could try to use "Shadows Only" option in the material's shadow settings

and set horizon color to white in the World tab.

The result looks like this:

This is the blend with such simple setup (I have also enabled Ambient Occlusion effect in the World settings).