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Hi, I am rendering the following:



But I wanted to remove the floor keeping the shadows, so I've used the shadow catcher:



But this also removes all reference to the reflections and illuminations:



I wanted to achieve removing the floor but keeping everything else. Is something like this possible?:



Using R23 & PR6 on Catalina

Thanks

Hi,
have a look at the render Layer technique:
https://docs.otoy.com/cinema4d/RenderLayer.html

ciao Beppe

bepeg4d wrote:Hi,
have a look at the render Layer technique:
https://docs.otoy.com/cinema4d/RenderLayer.html

ciao Beppe

Thanks, that's really really handy to know.

I've got as far as this, but I cannot get the shadow layer to show:

atoyuser1 wrote:Thanks, that's really really handy to know.
I've got as far as this, but I cannot get the shadow layer to show.

Use Black Shadows, it will keep all shadows from the current render layer,
even without a shadow catcher.






Then compose these 2 passes.

Or update to 2020.2 and use "layer shadows" instead of "black shadows".

Thanks, I tried checking 'black Shadows' but didn't see any difference. Would it show in the live viewer?

I should have mentioned I am using Octane X PR6 (Catalina)

Hi atoyuser1,
I’m on PR7 Big Sur, but it should work also with PR6 Catalina version.
Please have a look at this example scene and report back, thanks:



ciao Beppe

Thanks Beppe, this is what I get:



hope I don't have to upgrade to Big Sur!

hi atoyuser1,
please, post a complete screenshot from PR6 Live View, thanks.

ciao beppe

Thanks for sharing the screenshot.
What happen if you click here?


ciao Beppe