Hey, I have a question for you awesome dudes. I've found how to set an object so it renders, it only displays shadows. However, I can only enable this when it comes to shadows caused by lamps, not Radiosity. Is there a way to enable a layer so that it will only render the radiosity shadows, or is there a way to get the same effect as this? If this is a weird question, or I don't understand the basic mechanics of Radiosity forgive me, I am fairly new.

You are one up on me, can you talk a little about getting a separate layer with only shadows for lamps. I'm still on square one.

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Sure. (oh, and when I said layer, I meant plane, hope that didn't confuse anyone). If I remember correctly, when you're in the material settings, click on mirror trans, then Shadow Only. If this doesn't work, let me know and I could check.

Attached Link: http://www.blender.org/modules/documentation/htmlI/c8778.html

If I understand your question correctly MrDB, you can use spotlights to cast shadows at the same time as you are using Radiosity, or GI. Maybe this is the only way to get the effect you describe. In case you haven't seen it, there is a four-page section concerning radiosity in the Blender online manual/user's guide that might answer a few of your questions. Too bad they haven't written the ray-tracing section yet.

You can do it in the new version, it was a new addition apparently, so I am HIGHLY happy.

Most excellent!