Someone did a tutorial on how to do a shadow catch shader using shader mixer. I used that tutorial and made my own shadow-catcher shader that I apply to a plane primitive when I want ground shadows. It works for me—simple to apply to any surface, and you can adjust shadow intensity.
Someone did a tutorial on how to do a shadow catch shader using shader mixer. I used that tutorial and made my own shadow-catcher shader that I apply to a plane primitive when I want ground shadows. It works for me—simple to apply to any surface, and you can adjust shadow intensity.
I love Carnite’s videos, but in this instance, I am following her step-by-step, and I am not getting her result. My plane is rendering white. The shadows are there, but so is my white plane, which should be transparent. The same problem I am having with pwCatch.
That’s why I’m so perplexed. I can’t get pwCatch to work nor the shader mixer route Carnite explains. I don’t know what to do. I have to get this commission in and nothing is working.
That is so frustrating, I am afraid that if I cannot get the shadows right, I use either photoshop or corel paint. Not very satisfactory though. I am not good with shadows, that is why I bought pwCatch, and even that won’t work. It should, we paid for it!!!!!
That is so frustrating, I am afraid that if I cannot get the shadows right, I use either photoshop or corel paint. Not very satisfactory though. I am not good with shadows, that is why I bought pwCatch, and even that won’t work. It should, we paid for it!!!!!
Exactly. I bought it during a sale some time ago. I just never needed it until now. Now I need it, it won’t work, and it’s too late for a refund, witch I don’t want anyway, because I want it to work.
But that still doesn’t help me figure out why it doesn’t work through the shader mixer, either.
Nor does it explain why, when I simply put the background image under my character and render from above, why it’s coming out white. Is it me or daz?
Usually backgrounds don’t show shadows. If you use a prop it should, but image backgrounds don’t.
Lol ... I know that. I am saying, I first tried casting the shadow on a plane with my background photo on it. It’s an areal view, so it should have worked. But instead, it renders white with the shadows in place.
So I put the background image in the actual background, and used a plane just as a surface for the catch. That renders yellow with shadows.
And most recently, I used Carnite’s tut, but that renders white with shadows, too.
AidanaWillowRaven have you tried starting with a new scene and just using a simple prop and ground plane a couple of lights not too bright and seeing if you get shadows then.
Make sure you are applying the correct version for the version of DS you are using.
