From: Mike Dudley To: Frank Lenhard Cc: 3dsmax-list <3dsmax@engram.net> Subject: Re: WG: shadows please, no thanks on the light Date: Thursday, April 27, 2000 12:10 PM Just to do a test I set up a sphere above a plane and shined a target spot with shadows turned on at it. I went into the exclude panel in the light and excluded the sphere from illumination. I ended up with a nice shadow on the plane with no illumination on the sphere. No prob... no separate pass... MikeD Player1 Frank Lenhard wrote: > If I understand you correctly you can try the following: > > You can render an explicit shadow pass. > Render you scene without shadows and use this as the background files. > Next assign a matte/shadow material to everything in the scene don't check > Opaque Alpha and make sure that recive shadows and affect alpha is on. > Now you get the shadows in the alpha channel and con compose it over your > image. > > Frank Lenhard > Animation/Postproduction > franky@mediaproject.de > http://www.mediaproject.de > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Nelle, Steve [mailto:SNelle@vace.com] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 27. April 2000 17:45 > An: 3EngramDigital Max list (E-mail) > Betreff: shadows please, no thanks on the light > > is it possible to have a light cast a shadow behind an object, yet not cast > light on to that object. ie. i want a shadow from that light, but no > additional illumination. can't seem to figure how. i've tried the light's > include/exclude shadow casting with no luck. maybe i'm using it > incorrectly....maybe that's not what the tool is designed to do. i've read > the online help's explanation on include/exclude until i'm cross-eyed. any > ideas? aware of matte shadow material capabilities, but can't use it in > this instance. almost remember reading a post a short time ago about > someone having a plugin out there that does what i need. > > thanks > > -- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe at: > http://mail.engram.net/guest/RemoteListSummary/3DSTUDIOMAX > List courtesy of http://www.Engram.net > > -- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe at: > http://mail.engram.net/guest/RemoteListSummary/3DSTUDIOMAX > List courtesy of http://www.Engram.net -- Subscribe/Unsubscribe at: http://mail.engram.net/guest/RemoteListSummary/3DSTUDIOMAX List courtesy of http://www.Engram.net