Shadow catching with Frontal Projection

[adamfilip]

Cant seem to get the shadow catching to work properly. when i turn on the matte the projection area turns transparent

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[adamfilip]

Anyone have any suggestions on how i can fix this?

[bepeg4d]

Hi adamfilip,
It seems that you are mixing the shadow catcher technique with the Render Layer technique.
The Matte option is the old method, and since it used with a diffuse material, you cannot have the reflections on the floor.
My suggestion is to remove the matte option and work only with the Render Layer option by assigning a different id to the sphate and the ground plane, in this way you can have both shadow and reflection layer:
Render Layer Passes
ciao beppe

[adamfilip]

I dont want to do this in post..
Want to render it straight