From: Frank Lenhard To: 3dsmax-list <3dsmax@engram.net> Subject: WG: shadows without illumination Date: Friday, April 28, 2000 8:41 AM Of course. There is no difference between one single frame and an animation. With seperate shadows you have also the possibility to change the appearance of the shadow in post without rerendering (blur, color, darkness etc.). Btw. with heavy scenes you'll be faster than rendering the complete scene with shadows and mappings. Frank Lenhard Animation/Postproduction franky@mediaproject.de http://www.mediaproject.de -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Abey George [mailto:abey@saudionline.com.sa] Gesendet: Freitag, 28. April 2000 16:11 An: 3DSMAX@engram.net Betreff: shadows without illumination Hi all Wow Those tips on getting shadows without illumination were great.. Is there any way to do the same for animations...ie..render one sequence without shadows and the other with and then composite the two? Thanks Abey 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 chec= k 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 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:56:37 -0700 From: Glenn Easley To: "3EngramDigital Max list (E-mail)" <3DSMAX@EngramDigital.com> Subject: RE: shadows please, no thanks on the light Message-ID: <231926880B72D311836D0060B03C1B5B0198D0@SEA-NTMX-2> It's very easy in Max 3. Create a light with 0 intensity. Turn shadows on and set the density to -1. Change the shadow color to white. This gives you a light that casts shadows but does not illuminate. -- 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