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Hi there - forgive me if this is an obvious question but after watching several tutorials and trying different methods, I have still to find the solution.

I'm compositing an animated character into footage, and would like to render a shadow pass layer with the character for compositing purposes. The shadow catcher cannot be just a plane, as there are multiple objects in the scene that the character should cast a shadow on. However, these objects should not cast shadows on themselves or each other.

In C4D native, you could simply turn off 'self-shadowing' in the Compositing tag. In Octane I've tried different combinations of the Shadow Visibility parameter in the Object tag, rendering separate object layers, inverting mattes etc, but I can't seem to find a way of just getting the character's shadow on the objects and not the shadows of the objects themselves. Any help would be very appreciated!

Hi,
please, post an example scene of your typical setup.
ciao Beppe

thanks for the reply!

here's a simple project setup: this currently renders as this, where the ground objects are also casting shadows:
what I'd like to achieve is this, which I set up in native, where the ground objects are only receiving shadows and not casting them:

mmm, I think that it is not currently possible to do this in Octane without multiple renders, sorry.
ciao Beppe