Isyl opened this issue on May 08, 2008 ยท 26 posts
bagginsbill posted Fri, 09 May 2008 at 9:48 AM
Oh thanks bantha. That's the thread. I'm kinda busy this morning and didn't have a chance to search for it.
Isyl - the material was specifically designed to perform in-Poser compositing of floor shadows with the background photo.
It may or may not behave correctly for you if you want to make a semi-transparent image that you can composite outside Poser.
What you should do is use either a solid color background or a photo to adjust the effect in Poser. Do renders until the shadow looks like how you want it.
Then - this is important - to make the final image, render over black. This is a render option.
You need to do that so the resulting image does not have the in-poser background blended into it. After you export try compositing it with other things outside Poser. If the effect isn't to your liking, try to test-render with the background in Poser, make adjustments, then render over black again and export.
If this doesn't lead to good results, let me know. I can probably make a few modifications that would work better for external compositing.
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