Shadow Texture

[Blmrs]

Hi All,

Quick question someone may have an answer for. I'm creating an Earth shader and need the shadows (or dark side of the Earth) to render as a different texture (Earth by day Vs. Earth by night). Any thoughts on how to achieve this? I looked into Material Overrides but no luck.

Thoughts?

[Yannick]

Hi All,

Quick question someone may have an answer for. I'm creating an Earth shader and need the shadows (or dark side of the Earth) to render as a different texture (Earth by day Vs. Earth by night). Any thoughts on how to achieve this? I looked into Material Overrides but no luck.

Thoughts?

Render Element? That should give you the shadow on its own. Otherwise Render Layer with a white sphere and your light, that will give you just the shadow.

[Svetlozar Draganov]

Surface Luminance node might be useful in this case:


Scene:shadow_shader.zip

[Blmrs]

Surface Luminance node might be useful in this case:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]22306[/ATTACH]

Scene:[ATTACH]22307[/ATTACH]

Luminance node! Exactly what I needed. Thanks!!