I was wondering if there is a way to make floor and wall shadows in studio without having a floor or background prop.  I've seen images rendered in Poser with a plain white bg and shadows showning on the floor.  I've been playing with my lights in studio but having just the plain white bg the shadows only seem to render on my characters any sugguestions?

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Thanks so much hun for the help, I signed up and I have found the tut. I guess if I thought about it more I could have figured that out lol I'm off to try again.  The render already takes 2 hours as is I think cause I'm using PWSurfaces for my characters skin but it will be well worth it to learn new things s

I actually have a similar but not the same query.

I want to crete shadows, I'm using a floor prop, however I want to export as a png without the floor prop showing just the model and its shadow...

Is this possible?

You'd have to do the same thing as I was told above.  There is actually a floor used in the above image. You need to have the floor so the light has something to bounce the shadow on.  Follow the above link the check out the tut, it's very good!   Worked for me s 

I understand the above concept which works really well and looks good, but what I need is for just the Figure and shadow on the PNG export without the floor prop showing, ie I need to create an animated figure with shadow for a set of dds files so that the figure can be placed on any background no matter on the colour...

You'd need the pwCatch shader for that - it's a for-sale item at DAZ

ok thanks

When discussing the same problem over at DAZ, I think we came to the conclusion that pwCatch won't work with AO, and the 'quick and dirty' lighting scheme I used above relies primarily on AO. You'll have to find a different way of lighting to make use pwCatch.

It does the job I need in aiding with sprite construction where I have set up a "studio" with 16 cams and use distant lighting with shadow maps.

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Ah, the Mad Minute game engine. Very well done.

I thought this would only be possible by constructing your own model in max etc. Very smart idea Kunshouling !

Are you familiar with this engine then?

Kunshouling:

Only as a player.

I saw a document on their homepage as how to mod the figures where they advised to build them in Max. Using DAZ or Poser never occurred to me.