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make a floor invisible and keep a shadow


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make a floor invisible and keep a shadow
by Pablo Hill on Aug 6, 2008 at 1:47:28 am

how do I make a floor invisible but keep a shadow. I know how to do it on After Effects but not on C4D.

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Re: make a floor invisible and keep a shadow
by zach gunter on Aug 6, 2008 at 3:19:31 am

is it live footage on the floor?

what material is under the floor, that you need to see?

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Re: make a floor invisible and keep a shadow
by Pablo Hill on Aug 6, 2008 at 4:18:03 am

I tracked footage in PFhoe and export it to C4D, all the camera information is there. I added text and added a floor to crate the text shadow. Now I need to make the floor invisible but still be able to see the projected shadow.

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Re: make a floor invisible and keep a shadow
by randy johnson on Aug 6, 2008 at 5:03:44 am

To make the floor inviible place a compositing tag on it and in the atttributes turn off "seen by camera" and make sure receive shadow is checked on.

Then to render seperate use a multi-pass render with shadows checked. It will come with a white background so just multiply it over the rest.

/randy

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Re: make a floor invisible and keep a shadow
by Pablo Hill on Aug 6, 2008 at 2:50:26 pm

I've done that and it's not working. I was missing the multiply tag at render settings. But I'm still not getting a shadow.

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Re: make a floor invisible and keep a shadow
by randy johnson on Aug 7, 2008 at 7:25:27 am

Then you need to use an object buffer instead.
Also in the composite tag and needs to be activted in the multi-pass.

/randy

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Re: make a floor invisible and keep a shadow
by Will Salley on Sep 22, 2008 at 9:06:46 pm

I've got the same problem. Is it a bug?

I'm on V10.1.1 Mac

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Mac Pro 2x3.2 Quadcore - 10.5.4 - QT 7.5 - 6MBram - nvidia8800GT - SATA internal & external storage - Blackmagic Multibridge Pro (v6.7)- Open GL 1.5.6 - Wacom Intous2 tablet

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