Questions tagged [shadowcatcher]
A Blender object may be a Shadowcatcher, becoming an object that only receives shadow rays. Such an object might be used to overlay 3D objects over a real world video or photo. Use this tag for questions about the Shadowcatcher setting and its uses.
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shadow only looks good when it has to be behind the character. on the front does not work correctly
how to make the shadow stay correctly in front of the image plane, when it is supposed to be behind it is perfect, when it needs to be in front it is cut off and away from the character.[In this first ...
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When I activate the shadow catcher in the plane it shows the hdri instead of showing just the shadow
When the shadow catcher is activated on the plane, it shows the envarioment instead of the other ground plane
follow new images to check it out
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What can cause Shadow Catcher mask to be disregarded by Blender?
I tried to add shadow catcher to the scene I was working on. I reduced a blend file that I was working on to a simplest scene with a cube and a plane and still couldn't make shadow appear on the plane....
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Shadow catcher do not rendering in one specific project
I have a specific project in which shadows are not displayed when rendering with a shadow catcher, although in all other projects everything works fine
Its how shadow catcher looking on render mode in ...
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Changes of shadows color when enabling shadow catcher
I'm working on a project where I do a render in which a light passes through tinted glass and is reflected on a real footage wall.
When I test the reflection on a plane, the shadows takes on the ...
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How to have only the shadow of an object into its own render layer?
Hello people of stackexchange,
I'm working on a more complex setup but want to understand the basics, so I'll use a simple example.
I have a plane and a cube. The cube is casting a shadow on the plane....
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How does shadow-catcher work mathematically?
I know this workflow: mark object as shadow-catcher, multiply shadow catcher pass with background, alpha-over the image and you are done.
I'm interested in understanding how exactly does the Blender ...
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Correct Shadow/Reflection Catcher for external compositing?
Is there a correct way to save out shadow/reflection of an object to composite on transparent background in Photoshop? Kinda like Cinema4D or Vray matte works in 3Ds Max. I tried using Blender's 3.5 ...
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What's causing these artifacts that only shows up in renders and not viewports?
I'm trying to figure out why this artifact is showing up in my render, not my viewport. It's almost like there is another object in my scene but I can't I have no idea where it is.
All of my shadow ...
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Where is the shadow catcher in blender 3.5?
I can't seem to find the shadow catcher in blender 3.5. Did they moved it or is it a bug and it's just not there?
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Is there any way to mask out surface and leave reflection/shadow only?
I'm trying to create a composite image with bottles on a table and I need to have shadow/refraction/gloss of the bottle to be separate from the bottle itself. I tried Shadow Catcher pass, but it ...
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Can I prevent an object from being shaded by lights, while still receiving cast shadows?
In Eevee, I'm trying to render an object against a transparent background, while still catching the object's cast shadow.
Unfortunately, the transparent surface I'm using to catch the shadow is for ...
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Shadow catcher not catching shadows
I can't get a shadow catcher to work. Here are the steps I followed:
Create a new scene, and add an object and a plane.
Set Render Properties > Render Engine to Cycles and turn on Render ...
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Is there a way around the strange behavior of a shadow catcher's projected shadows?
I'm working on some composites, where I need to mix 3D models with real photographs, and I need to use shadow catchers on both a ground plane, and on some rebuilt scene geometry to get accurate ...
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Shadow catcher over baked floor
I'm trying to make a semi real render without breaking Le VRam bank and time and so I decided to bake a combined on everything (even the floor) and then I placed my shadow catcher on the floor and put ...
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Shadow Catcher missing in 3.2
I was trying to capture shadows on transparency and was following a Youtube video, and the very first step I could not do.
The video said to select the object to receive the shadow and go to the ...
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Shadow Catcher on semi-transparent image as own layer with Cycles?
I somehow do not get it, and various other answers somehow do not help me here.
I have a cube and a plane.
The plane acts as a "Shadow Catcher" and that works fine so far.
When I render the ...
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Casting Volumetric Shadows in Cycles Fastest Way
I am experimenting with trying to combine Eevee for volumetrics and Cycles for everything else. I have found a way to produce smoke that is really effective and much more efficient than using cycles ...
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Composite image with shadow catcher
So, while compositing a scene, seeing as DAZ models are kinda resource intensive, I tried to break it down into layers. The layers are combined using alpha over nodes and seem to be in the right order....
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Object Randomly Going Transparent When Rendered
I have an animation that I did with a tree falling over. It's going to be put over some footage I have so I'm just rendering the object and the animation itself. I added transparency to the background ...
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Shadow catcher for curved surface in EEVEE?
I'm using EEVEE as my main renderer and I need to provide a 2D team with a character image with a shadow in translucent pixels.
My character is standing on a curved floor. However, all of the EEVEE ...
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Shadow catcher doesn't work with multiple objects
I have multiple objects and I want to set all of them to shadow catcher. I want to render only the shadows that the objects cast on each other.
It works in the ...
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How to create procedural square transparent simulated shadow?
I am new to Blender, and I would like to create a procedural material that simulates a transparent shadow for a cube.
I already know how to create a simulated transparent shadow for a sphere (see ...
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In Blender 3.2, can I exclude light sources form a shadow catcher without compositing view layers?
My scene has an object which is lit from the side by a light. There is another light on top of the object, and a shadow catcher underneath the object. I want the object to be lit by the side light, ...
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Casting the shadow of a inner object on the outer of a sphere
I'm using eevee as render engine, the sphere is a shadow catcher (video), I don't know how to see the shadow on the front face of the sphere. file
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Trying to produce a shadow that is exported with an object
Potentially an impossible task, but feels like it should be able to be done. Is there a way to cast a shadow onto a transparent shadowcatcher, than export the .glb file so that when I use the image in ...
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How can I composite the new shadow catcher that should work with reflections in latest versions of blender?
There are no so many shadow catcher youtube tutorials on blender, and all of them are outdated. I tried using the new shadow catcher that should work with reflections also and couldn't make it look ...
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How can I create a freestyle line without a shadowcatcher affecting the line calculation?
In the default scene with freestyle enabled and external contour selected, I get this:
If I then add a plane below the cube you get this:
Then I enable shadowcatcher on the plane, and get this:
As ...
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How to bake ambient occlusion of a plane with transparency?
I'm new to Blender and 3D in general.
I have a single object (mesh), a plane, and no lights and I've set an environment (world?) for my scene. Now, I want to export the scene to GLTF and want to bake ...
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How can I remove white from my backgorund layer?
How can I remove white from my background layer while keeping this blue color (because if I set the ground as shadow catcher I get only black shadow)?
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Shadowcatcher not working in 3.0
I recently updated to 3.0 and the shadowcatcher won't work. Spent a lot of time researching and saw also this post but I simply can't make it work. If someone could help me I'd be grateful!
Also, how ...
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Eevee - How to use the Shadow Catcher in blender 3.0?
How to do Shadow Catcher in blender 3.0. In 2.9 is very easy to make Shadow Catcher. But I can't find it in 3.0
I don't have shadow catcher?!
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Blender 3 Cycles Shadow Catcher Fail
Cycles Shadow Catcher in 3.0 won't work for me. The shadow appears in the viewport but doesn't render. It works in 2.93 no problem.
If anyone could point me in the right direction I'd be most grateful....
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Is it possible to bake animated shadows?
I use the add on Grove to animate trees in the wind and project the shadow on a wall. But the method is not very efficient because the scene is already very full and the trees require a lot of ...
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Blender 3.0 shadow catcher really slow
Since the new Blender 3.0 version came out, it seems that they use a new shadow catcher in cycles, which is much slower than in version 2.93, which makes it unusable for me as the render times ...
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Blender 3 - Make Shadow Catcher pass transparent instead of white
The new shadow catcher is awesome. However the rendered pass has a white background (in the viewport it works as expected).
How can I get a pass with just shadow data, transparency and no white?
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Blender 3.0 Shadow Catcher result color
I'm getting a weird result with the new shadow catcher when using emissive materials or a colored light.
Viewport:
Result:
Compositor Setup:
I'm guessing there's something wrong with the setup. Any ...
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Shadow catcher is transparent but visible in reflections?
When I use a plane as a shadow-catcher it becomes transparent but is still visible in reflections. Many people suggest unticking Glossy in the Ray Visibility section of the plane's Object properties. ...
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Final image render produces blurrier result than 3D Viewport's render
I'm using Cycles and finding that the image I see in the 3D Viewport (when using rendered shading) is far crisper than the final render produced with Render Image (F12). I can't work out why.
First, ...
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How to fix my shadow catcher?
What do you suggest I do to fix my shadow catcher plane so that the barrel of the tunnel doesn't leave a gap, causing it to cast a harder shadow?
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How to keep Background while using Shadow Catcher?
I am trying to Create a Chocolate-Bar like something on a Marble Background (Plane with Material Applied)
I have added One of Blender's Default HDRI as Lighting & No Other lighting in the Scene.. ...
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Shadow catcher visible through glass
I have converted the body in the scene to shadow catcher. But it is visible through glass. I want to have the shiny appearance of glass but other than some reflections I want the glass to be ...
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Shadow Catcher: How to convert from high bit depth render to alpha PNG and maintain reflections? [duplicate]
With the advent of Blender 3.0, the new shadow catcher can now capture reflections. All good. Except there is no way I can think of to export the image as an 8-bit trans PNG so that the reflections ...
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How do I make the shadow catcher show what's under it instead of the background colour?
In the image below you can see a cube, a shadow catcher that is under the cube (Looks like a grey plain), and a red plain under the shadow catcher.
Right now the shadow catcher is catching the shadow,...
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Cannot see mesh behind shadow catcher
I'm trying to create a shadow catcher on a ground mesh that is also transparent. The ground catches the shadow of items above it but allows the bottom part of a background image (also on a mash) to be ...
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How do I darken object shadow?
I created a scene using HDRI in which an airdrop is there on ground but airdrop shadow is not visible which makes it looks unreal. I've used a shadow catcher and it is even having particle system to ...
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Shadow Catcher not transparent
Maybe I do something wrong, but I read multiple posts about it and looked into different videos. I should do it right but it's just not working.
I want to have a plane that just catches the shadow of ...
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Have object and its shadow behind object appear in front
I have an images as planes in my scene that I am adding on to. I lines up a plane with the floor in the image, and want to add assets to make it seem as if they are on the floor. The plane is blocking ...
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Make objects invisible when they go through shadow catcher?
I have a plane as the ground, and I am animating a character to walk across the plane. The plane is a shadow catcher, because I'm doing VFX and I want to add shadows to the ground in the video, to ...
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The visibility dropdown isn't there in the object properties tab in cycles for me (2.92) [duplicate]
Third time asking this because the mods keep closing the question before I get any answers. I'm new to StackExchange so forgive me if I'm somehow doing this wrong on the forum here.
In my Object ...
