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# 2 25-11-2007 , 09:22 AM
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You need to override the rendering flags.
add all shadow casting objects and lights into your render layer and click the flag on the layer.

Here you can tell maya to override the render flags.

So for example to get selected objects to render but to still receive casted shadows from objects you dont want to be rendered do the following:

-Make sure ALL the objects shadow casting and ones you want rendered are in the layer as well as the lights obviously.


-click the flag on the render layer and make sure override is on for primarily visibility, at default this will make everything invisible. Then its just a case of going to the shape nodes of the objects you want visible and going to their render flags, right click on their primarily visibility and clicking unlock attribute and turning their visibility back on.

Now when you render you will have only selected objects visible but still have shadow casting objects casting their shadows.