shadow catcher cast shadows error

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Dwas2000
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HI

I have three lights in the scene when unchecking cast shadows on one or two of the lights it seems to mess up the matt on the shadow catcher materials.


Win 10
64GB ram
C4D R20
Nvidia driver 416.35
Octane V4.0-RC7
sigurdhoeyen
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I second this - I can't turn off shadow for any light without it messing up my shadow catcher

Win 10
32GB ram
C4D R20
Nvidia driver 416.34
Octane V4.0-RC7
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OCTANE 3.07.R2 / 4.0
WINDOWS 10
C4D R18
sigurdhoeyen
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This might illustrate it a bit better
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OCTANE 3.07.R2 / 4.0
WINDOWS 10
C4D R18
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bepeg4d
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Hi,
this is a know limitation of the shadow catcher option, for this reason, better to use Render Layer technique, instead.
Please, have a look at the documentation about this argument:
http://www.aoktar.com/octane/RenderLayer.html
ciao Beppe
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