Shadow-only material

[alexschreyer]

This must be a common problem. I just couldn't find it in the forum.

How can I set up a (ground) material so that it only renders the shadows and not the material itself. I want to use some sky domes with a single object and rendered shadows would be great.

Cheers,
Alex

[Frederik]

It certainly would be great, but can't be achieved with current version of TWR...
Perhaps in the future...?

[Fletch]

To cast a shadow on an invisible ground plane we currently must do something like this:
Shadows effect

[alexschreyer]

Just checking back in on this issue. Is this possible now?

Cheers,
Alex

[Fletch]

still no.

[rjhuber]

How about now? Can we do this yet?

[Fletch]

This is called "Shadow catcher" and doesn't currently exist in the render engine.

To cast a shadow on an invisible ground plane we currently must do something like this:
Shadows effect