How to toggle "Cast shadows" on objects?

[Tigersan]

I have a skydome that has a HDR texture and i use it as an emitter for the ambient light.
BUT i want to use Octane sunlight, but the skydome blocks the sunlight. How do I make
the skydome be transparent to the sunlight, so that i can still see it and without turning
off the shadows on the sunlight itself?

[face_off]

Hi. Delete the skydome, and put the HDRI that was on the skydone in the Visible Environment Texture.

Paul

[Tigersan]

Yup I've done that, but i mean also having sun directed sunlight on top of that. Is there a way to do it? Or is it only
either or?

[Erick]

Yes, you can have both.
But you have to choose, which one you want to use for which purpose (Backplate, Refl., Refract.).
It's either this or that (see tooltips)

[wimvdb]

Or you can plug the hdri in the sky texture of the daylight environment

[calvados]

Oh ! , I used Sky-texture, but You must use seamless texture.

[Tigersan]

Thank you guys!