Forum: Carrara


Subject: Shadows help

sparrownightmare opened this issue on Nov 21, 2006 · 5 posts


sparrownightmare posted Wed, 22 November 2006 at 7:29 AM

Well the thing is, that the lighting is not working well for both the backdrop and the fairy.  To get it to look good on her it needs to be set up a certain way.  To get the backdrop to look good, the fairy gets washed out.  So I need different lighting settings for the backdrop and the fairy.  But I need the wings semi transparent which means I have to render them seperately from the fairy, alone without th backdrop so I can make them transparent in PSP X and overlay them onto the backdrop seperately.  I need to have them in their own layer.  Since I do not want the fairy herself to be transparent at all, I need her in a third layer which is not transparent in PSP X.  So there is the problem.  I could make the wings transparent in C5 but then I would have to have the scene lighting set up for the backdrop and they would get washed out too since I would have to render them with the backdrop to get the backdrop to show through the wings in C5.  I guess the ability to have C5 render just a shadow map of invisible objects would be something that they should put on the wish list for future versions.