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Shadow catcher by Karba
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I take it this is in the next build
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So all these nice things are arriving in a Xmas build? :P :arrow: :mrgreen:
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wow!
excuse my ignorance but what is it?
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Great ! Wonderful ! I was waiting for that for ages ! Thanks ! I will jump on my feet until it will be released ! :D

@ Juan : It is the very desired Shadow Catcher material, allowing to capture the shadow of an object onto an unvisible material. When saving the image with transparent background it can be composited with a bacground photo with realistic shadow. A very needed feature !
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juan wrote:wow!
excuse my ignorance but what is it?
Shadow catcher is useful for compositing, means that you can render your scene then composite it on AE/Photoshop/Nuke or anything you want. As it get the shadows from Octane, you can implement your model easily with fitting shadows, etc.
Good thing also shown here is that you can render directly from Octane, shadows using HDRI environment maps without doing any compositing.
So you can say good-bye to floating models around HDRI ;)
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I definitely need to put in a late effort now and be a good wee Octaner so Santa comes.. :roll:
I'm also going to look out my Xmas stocking and clean the chimney right away... :)
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icelaglace wrote:Shadow catcher by Karba
Wow! I've been waiting for this but wasn't expecting soon..

Just one question. Will the shadow catcher render the scene without the object alpha?
That would be awesome as well..

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oguzbir wrote:
icelaglace wrote:Shadow catcher by Karba
Wow! I've been waiting for this but wasn't expecting soon..

Just one question. Will the shadow catcher render the scene without the object alpha?
That would be awesome as well..

Kudos ;)
Yes, you can.
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Like this for example. The model still casts shadows but is not visible in alpha.
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