Shadow catcher

[surena]

Hi all,

What is the best way to make a shadow catcher material?
(One that captures direct and indirect shadow).

If this is not possible, I add to the wishlist.

[Samo]

Hi surena

Can you please include links about how this feature works in other engines?

[surena]

This is shadow catcher on thea:

https://www.thearender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=17458

On octane:

https://docs.otoy.com/#51Using%20The%20Shadow%20Catcher

On luxrender:

http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/Shadowcatcher

Regards!

[Rio]

Hi guys !
here examples of what we expect for shadow catcher. The first image is rendered with Blender Internal that provides the good result. There's a plane with a " only cathc shadow" shader under Suzanne. The same process made with Yafaray, I tried several option in material panel of Yafa but it doesn't work as we want. I joined the blend file for testing, look at the scene on top of Blender UI, there's the same scene with Blender Internal and Yafaray ( scene.001), just hit F12 to see the results.

Regards

Blender Internal:

Yafaray:

the blend file:

ShadowCatcher_Yafa_01.zip

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