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EdCast
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I'm not sure how to export shadows for an animation. I've watched inlifethrills great tutorials for the render passes, but I can't get shadows to appear in the live viewer as effortlessly as he does. :? I believe I have followed everything he does... I just see a white screen when I click on the shadows option. Exporting with multipass enabled also gives me a white screen.
In his tutorial (Part 3 - Multi-Pass Rendering with Octane Render for Cinema 4D - Render Layer - https://vimeo.com/119848103 ), he exports the multipasses to photoshop for more compositing flexibility. I'm just looking to get the animated shadows out of my scene for compositing in after effects/nuke, what is the simplest way to achieve this?

Kernel settings:
Kernel settings
Kernel settings
Here are my settings in Render layer.
Render layer settings
Render layer settings
When I just look at shadows I see a white image. No shadows are visible:
Render layer no shadows
Render layer no shadows
I've added an octane object tag to the cube and the floor, both on object layer 1.
Objects in scene
Objects in scene
Project details: Cinema R15, Octane 2.32.1
Scene: 1 cube, 1 light and floor.
Shadow Test 1.zip
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I'm still a beginner (recently upgraded from 1.54 to 2.32.1) and I'm not sure what to look at to fix my issue.
Thanks, any advice is much appreciated.
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can you see the mistake? Any question?
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EdCast
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I tried object ID 1 and 2 with the same results(cube and floor tags). I still see a white screen...
I have reloaded the scene as well, resending to octane with no change.
Render Layer settings object 2.JPG
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