45Cool opened this issue on Feb 21, 2008 ยท 20 posts
bagginsbill posted Wed, 27 February 2008 at 12:21 PM
The background is just one picture. I used a primitive one-sided square, scaled up, to display the image behind the figure.
The shadow of the figure is falling on the poser Ground, which was set up as a custom shadow catcher so the shadow would be blue.
A shadow catcher is any object with a special shader on it. The shader makes the object completely transparent, so you see through it, except where a shadow falls. Then it becomes partially opaque, thus darkening the image that you see behind the floor.
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