matte shadow & reflections/refractions - huge problem

[flipside]

Yes the sphere is reflecting in the tabletop. The tabletop reflects the black environment (=no reflection) and it reflects all objects placed on the tabletop.

[roppin]

isn´t the problem that the objects is to much lit from the camview? if you look at the other objects in the scene they are a lot darker towards the camera than the hdri-lit geometry

Daniel

[Da_elf]

wow. whats with the resurrection of these ooooold posts hehe

[RErender]

wow. whats with the resurrection of these ooooold posts hehe

It's good to see the search function being used rather than the same questions over and over

[zager]

now I did it!
Is it possible for the reflection to enter in its own Alpha channel?

[dbuchhofer]

not directly, or at least, not currently.. you can use different blending modes when you do your composite though.. Screen/Overlay/Multiply work wonders..

the shadow would have to be seperate from the reflection pass... but it should be anyway i would think.. to allow for color corrections

[Da_elf]

maybe this should be in a totally new post. ive figured out a bunch of stuff. shadow pass is easy, diffuse pass also easy. GI pass also easy. now the hard part is with glass. ive has an animation i wanted to do in layers with a glass bottle. getting the glass to have reflections on inner and outer surfaces was tough. basically if anyone has done a glass bottle in passes let me know cuz reflection and refraction passes on a bottle confuse me. plus there was a characters hand holding the bottle

[dbuchhofer]

Add your GI pass info to this thread for safe keeping elf.. always like to hear more workarounds..

http://www.chaoticdimension.com/foru...pic.php?t=4266

As to the glass/refraction.. what is it thats confusing? mabye some images to demonstrate would help..