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Shadow Catcher dont work (Version 2.24.0 - R1)

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 9:04 am
by NVN
Hi there!

I get no alpha for my shadow?
What i doing wrong?
In the live viewer its shows correcly.....but not in the c4d picture viewer????
I use Version 2.24.0 - R1


Plz help me.....i need it immediately :-(

Scene is attached:
This is what i need

Re: Shadow Catcher dont work (Version 2.24.0 - R1)

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 11:02 am
by bepeg4d
hi,
Weird, here is what I got from your file in Picture Viewer:
r-wurfel-_LSh_0000.png
ciao beppe

Re: Shadow Catcher dont work (Version 2.24.0 - R1)

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 11:31 am
by aoktar
You don't need alpha. Just use gray scaled image as alpha source.

Re: Shadow Catcher dont work (Version 2.24.0 - R1)

Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 8:26 am
by NVN
a gray scales Map is not the same.
Because PS has problems with 50% Grey.....so i cant select my map.

Why no Alpha?
In the Octane Viewer it works, why not in the Picture Viewer??

Re: Shadow Catcher dont work (Version 2.24.0 - R1)

Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 1:31 pm
by aoktar
Sorry, but why don't try a PNG and post it as bug report without trying enough? Even thought that's working with PSD?

Re: Shadow Catcher dont work (Version 2.24.0 - R1)

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 1:18 pm
by NVN
when it works only with psd or png and not with tiff......than its a bug, isnt it??

Re: Shadow Catcher dont work (Version 2.24.0 - R1)

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 2:17 pm
by aoktar
NVN wrote:when it works only with psd or png and not with tiff......than its a bug, isnt it??
Is not. Also your topic of title is not saying that tiff is not working. You wrote that shadow catcher does not work, why?

Re: Shadow Catcher dont work (Version 2.24.0 - R1)

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 6:31 pm
by NVN
lol...its a feature or what?
U're kidding me??

He is not working....because i used tiff.

Its the first bridge (not in Vray, not in Maxwell, not in Indigo, not in Fry...) where you have to watch whitch output format i have to use that it works.

Your answers are always excuses.
Can u not saying: " It works with png or psd, but not with tiff.....u are right, thx for tip...i will fix it"

Re: Shadow Catcher dont work (Version 2.24.0 - R1)

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 7:49 pm
by augdalmo
test shadow with tif.orbx
test
(879.54 KiB) Downloaded 186 times
you are wrong! a regular TIF image works as an png image. I think that Aoktar simply need more info about what you do.
Probably you don't do it correctly. Pure and simple...

Re: Shadow Catcher dont work (Version 2.24.0 - R1)

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 7:53 pm
by aoktar
augdalmo wrote:
test shadow with tif.orbx
you are wrong! a regular TIF image works as an png image. I think that Aoktar simply need more info about what you do.
Probably you don't do it correctly. Pure and simple...
Am i wrong?