joemccarron opened this issue on Nov 30, 2006 · 11 posts
CobraEye posted Thu, 30 November 2006 at 9:20 AM
My biggest problem with matchmover is that once the movie is in, vue can not make the shadows for the 3d objects so as to blend the 3d objects with the video. Of course this can be done in compositing programs, but it should be done in the 3d program.
Max, Maya, & Lightwave all have Matte Shadows so this can easily be achieved.
Vue does not.
As far as I know, a matte shadow is an invisible object that can still receive shadows. Even though vue has all these choices for receive shadows & cast shadows it still can not do this.
If you wach the demo matchmover on the e-on site, there will be a shadow from the 3d object. From what I know, this shadow was done separately in vue, and was put together in a composite program like After Effects.
However, matte shadows could easily be implemented in vue if the programmers decided it was necessary.
Maybe vue 7 Inf will have it.
To answer your question: no, matchmover can not make 3d objects. It blends 3d objects with video to make the illusion that the 3d objects are in the video. Shadows are a big part of this illusion. This is why vue should have matte shadows.