I’m trying to emulate a high key image where the floor is bright white, yet still shows shadow detail. Like this but without the reflection:
Here’s my model:
Anyhow, how can I make the plane under the coin bright white but still show shadow? (Assuming it’s even possible.)
Thanks!
Strange someone else asked almost the same question a few days ago and used the same reference image. You can read they responses to their thread here:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=124026
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What is being used in the example you show, if you exclude the reflections are ambient occlusion. You should experiment with that.
yafray might be easier to use in this case just try it and see what happen
yafray is a thru photon ray emulator which blender is not and has to use a lot of trick to do things like that - yafray is the champ from that point of view!~
Salutations
If you don’t want reflections the simplest way to do this might be to select OnlyShadow under the materials property of the plane. This should mean that only the shadows on the plane are rendered, not the plane itself. Then go to the world tab and set the background colour to white, or however you want the background to look, and the shadow should be rendered straight on to the background.
DichotomyMatt, I did read that thread (it’s where I got the image), but they never did post the solution to the problem! So I figured I’d try again. However, it would be helpful to know how to have a reflection as well, but my immediate needs don’t require it.
4jsquared the only shadow suggestion was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!