Indigo Renderer Forum

Hey guys,
I've spent around an hour searching the forums, and reading the manual, but I can't seem to find an answer.

I'm trying to create a material that can be used on a plane, that accepts shadows only, but is otherwise transparent.
Here's a quick blender internal render of what I'm trying to achieve in indigo:



Is this possible?? I've experimented with a null material, blended with a diffuse, but I'm very new at this and don't quite understand it.

All help is very much appreciated!!

Thanks in advance

I don't think it's possible because that material is impossible in real life :S

It's not possible at the moment....but I hope it's possible in the future...

....I see maxwell has a shadow channel material

Wow. You gotta be kidding me...

How do people do car renders then? With the car sitting out on a photo of street?

Oh well. I guess I'll just wait I spose
Thanks for the responses guys.

Model the street. Then you can brag when indigo spits out a kick ass image

yup, streets usually are modelled

You can also use an EXR map, but you would still probably want to model the foreground to get shadows, etc.

redbyte wrote:Wow. You gotta be kidding me...

How do people do car renders then? With the car sitting out on a photo of street?

Here is the way I did it...

Or you could do a shadow pass in blender internal and use it to cut the ground's alpha...