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01-01-2008
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Rendering shadows - NOT the object itself
I've got a question regarding rendering in mental ray. I have an object standing on a plane, using a point light on it with raytrace shadows. Now when I render it, I just want the shadows the object casts on the plane to be rendered and not the plane itself.
I've tried to change the primary visibility of the plane in the attribute spread sheet but that doesn't get me the desired effect.
Is it at all possible to do it the way I want to?
Thanks in advance
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01-01-2008
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So you need to set up the appropriate renderl ayers and then turn off primary visibilty on the sphere and you will then get the sphere casting shadows onto the plane and you will get just the shadow element.
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I forgot to say this, but I'm new to modelling. Could you please explain the details a bit more?
I've tried to go by this post, https://forum.simplymaya.com/showthre...?threadid=7831
but I can't really make sense of it.
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