maybe I’m just doing something wrong, but the settings we use to use for this no longer work.
I’ve got a vray plane. I apply a material wrapper and put a vray material in for the base (just plain near white), then apply it to the vray plane.
I change the material wrapper to -1.0 alpha contribution and check effect shadows and alpha.
That use to work, but now it does nothing.
So I thought, “lets just do it for the object.” I chose vray properties on the vrayplane. Checked the matte option and applied -1 to alpha contribution. It renders invisible again.
I have a light casting shadows and placed a plane just above the vray plane just to make sure it wasn’t working. the plane does cast shadows on another plane, but not onto the vray plane in which I am trying to cast shadows.
I am, however, using the new IBL, image based lighting, and one photometric light. Although, i would think the photometric light should cast the shadow without a problem. It did in my tests…just not on the matte object.
Anyone else had this issue? I haven’t had it until 1.5
Hello,
did you find any issue about this?
I reset 3dsmax, drawing a box whit a cilinder on top, one light, doing the box matte object via vray object parameters, -1 alpha… and doesn’t work. It doesn’t matter if I check or uncheck affect background.
That was using 3ds9 64bit, Vray 90 RC4a 64bit.
If I do the same in the old 1.47 version, it works as always.
Maybe to produce the same effect as before I should change some other thing.