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Questions tagged [shadowcatcher]

A Blender object may be a Shadowcatcher, becoming an object that only receives shadow rays. Such an object might be used to overlay 3D objects over a real world video or photo. Use this tag for questions about the Shadowcatcher setting and its uses.

Shadow Catcher is an object visibility property found in the Visibility panel of the Object properties in the Properties editor.

Setting Shadow catcher

Enables the object to only receive shadow rays.

Use this tag or questions about the Shadowcatcher setting and its uses.

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How can I composite the new shadow catcher that should work with reflections in latest versions of blender?

There are no so many shadow catcher youtube tutorials on blender, and all of them are outdated. I tried using the new shadow catcher that should work with reflections also and couldn't make it look good. I am not good at compositing. So if anyone…
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Blender 3 Cycles Shadow Catcher Fail

Cycles Shadow Catcher in 3.0 won't work for me. The shadow appears in the viewport but doesn't render. It works in 2.93 no problem. If anyone could point me in the right direction I'd be most grateful... Greenbeetle
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How to have a Reflective Shadow catcher?

I have a shadow catcher plane (Cycles) that works fine, but would like to add reflection of objects just above it. How do I activate this reflection ?
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Correct Shadow/Reflection Catcher for external compositing?

Is there a correct way to save out shadow/reflection of an object to composite on transparent background in Photoshop? Kinda like Cinema4D or Vray matte works in 3Ds Max. I tried using Blender's 3.5 Shadow Catcher option with Shadow Catcher pass,…
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Shadow catcher not catching shadows

I can't get a shadow catcher to work. Here are the steps I followed: Create a new scene, and add an object and a plane. Set Render Properties > Render Engine to Cycles and turn on Render Properties > Film > Transparent. Turn on the plane's Object…
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Shadow Catcher missing in 3.2

I was trying to capture shadows on transparency and was following a Youtube video, and the very first step I could not do. The video said to select the object to receive the shadow and go to the Object Properties panel under the Visibility sub-panel…
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Shadow catcher doesn't work with multiple objects

I have multiple objects and I want to set all of them to shadow catcher. I want to render only the shadows that the objects cast on each other. It works in the viewport shading render (cycles), but when I render, the output is empty. I think there…
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Casting the shadow of a inner object on the outer of a sphere

I'm using eevee as render engine, the sphere is a shadow catcher (video), I don't know how to see the shadow on the front face of the sphere. file Thank you !
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Shadowcatcher not working in 3.0

I recently updated to 3.0 and the shadowcatcher won't work. Spent a lot of time researching and saw also this post but I simply can't make it work. If someone could help me I'd be grateful! Also, how can I upload my blender file here?
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Blender 3.0 Shadow Catcher result color

I'm getting a weird result with the new shadow catcher when using emissive materials or a colored light. Viewport: Result: Compositor Setup: I'm guessing there's something wrong with the setup. Any ideas? Thanks!
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How become shadow catcher more strong

I´m using hdr lighting and a real picture with shadows (with shadow catcher method). The problems is the shadows produced from HDR is clear more then background picture. I´d like to obtein the same shadow or like, in the picture.
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Shadow Catcher blocks background image in 2.8

I'm pretty new to blender, and as I was getting used to 2.79, 2.8 landed and confused me ever more. I was wondering why the Shadow Catcher blocks the background image I set even if I checked transparent under Film.
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shadow cather dosent work appropreiated with footage as background

I create some mesh as 'shadow cather' so that I could 'cover' the area I don't want to show up. When I render it without background it seems works fine. But it doesn’t works with a footage/image as background. (you still can see it through!) Anyone…
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