How do I isolate my matte shadow? I want control in post. Now, it comes in black. [Monkey.jpg]

There is a Matte-Shadow render element which could be used as a mask to control the opacity of the matte-shadow on post: [1XsasIM.jpg]

[image] vray 3 beta for max started .. what about maya ? There is a Matte-Shadow render element which could be used as a mask to control the opacity of the matte-shadow on post: <img src=“ http://forums.chaosgroup.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=21851 ”/> I found that, but it seems to control a…

Yes that’s true - I always forget that the Matte-Shadow element contain information about the non-matte shadows as well. Fortunately Shadow element doesn’t contain information for the matte-shadows so if you extract it from MatteShadow one you’ll get the right mask. I can show you how to do it Nuk…

I’ll have to see what I can do in PS, thanks.

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glorybound November 24, 2014, 1:30pm 3

I found that, but it seems to control all the shadows in the scene.

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