Render the shadow, but not the object casting it?

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Hello,

How can I draw the shadow of an object, without drawing the object itself? If I set it to ‘OnlyShadow’, the shading of the object is still drawn. Selecting ‘Shadeless’ does not seem to do anything.

Thanks for any help!

MWM

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Set the alpha to zero in the object’s material settings.

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That was the first thing I tried, but then the shadow isn’t drawn either. :frowning:

MWM

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Turn on ztransp, turn off specularity, set alpha to zero.

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OK, I figured it out. I was using ray tracing, so when I set the material to be perfectly transparent, the raytracer figured it should cast no shadow. By putting a spotlight, and setting it to bufshadow, I got the wanted results.

Thanks for your help!

MWM

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It could’ve also been having the transparent shadow button checked, because with that checked the shadow adopts the transparency of the objects.