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pwcatch and studio 4.7

RuphussRuphuss Posts: 2,631
edited December 1969 in The Commons

does it work with the new environment tab ?
I can't get shadows to work on backdrops

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,805
    edited December 1969

    You need geometry to catch shadows - at the simplest a plane for the ground and/or the walls.

  • RuphussRuphuss Posts: 2,631
    edited December 1969

    it has options for working with backdrop
    is there any documentation out there ?
    I often used normal shadow catchers and know how to use them
    I thought this was different

  • RodrakRodrak Posts: 81
    edited December 1969

    ruphuss said:
    is there any documentation out there ?

    AFAIR the documentation is installed in Readme's\Poseworks\pwCatch
  • SpitSpit Posts: 2,342
    edited December 1969

    I could never get the backdrop thing to work the way I thought it was supposed to. And that was in Studio 2. It worked kinda, but I think there was a problem with rendering to a separate window or somesuch. It may have been my (mis)understanding but I gave up on it even before Studio 3. On the other hand, I've used a plane for shadow catching as recently as 4.6 (IIRC) but it doesn't capture AO so I don't even use that very often.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,805
    edited December 1969

    At one point the backdrop option didn't work with the render set to the viewport sizxe (that is, the Active Viewport preset for size).

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