Playing around with a background pic I took on a hiking trip yesterday, I can;t get my characters shadow to match my .mbp pic shawdow, any advice? If I change the shadow color and re-render the color looks the same to me, even if I do a Render compare, yet I changed the Shadow color shade a lot, like from RGB(50,50,50) to RGB(150,150,150)...

Also, I find the lights really finicky to work with, any advice on move the light sources around to match a picture?

I'm also not happy with her helm, facial expression or sword position, any other constructive feedback would be appreciated...

Thanks,

Vanz
 

The only way to match the light is moving light/render again and again .

For the color if you dont use IDL you can use the shadowcatser from Bagginsbill

http://sites.google.com/site/bagginsbill/free-stuff/shadow-catcher

The Shadow Color is for the Ground Shadows (if enabled) in an UNrendered image.

Try reducing the "Shadow" parameter for your main (sun) light to a lower value,
e.g., 1.000 ---> 0.750.
This will make your shadow a gray value instead of black and may better match you background pic which, if I may, is very nice.

cheers,
dr geep
;=]

Hey, Vanz,

I made the image smaller so it wouldn't break the page, and it now links to the full-sized image. ;)

Jeni