Jayanam gives a quick walkthrough of how to use the new Shadow Catcher option for image composition.
This is a tutorial about the Blender shadow catcher, a feature for compositing that is currently available in the latest build of Blender 2.78c.
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Thanks for this, great info, very simple and straightforward - may I suggest dropping the BG music or perhaps using something a lot more more understated - the dramatic music was quite distracting for me, I needed to watch the tut a few times to concentrate on the info - but great info nevertheless, thanks again - cheers, Stephen Norrington
Hi Stephen, ok, thx for the info, will do next time:-) Glad it was helpful anyway.
Not sure it's there in my build of 2.78C
Can anyone else find it?
Hi Glenn, no as I said it is in the latest build, not the released build, the link is added to the description of the video.
Ahh, my mistake. I went to blender.org and saw the latest build of Blender 2.78c was available so I just downloaded it and started looking :)
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AT LAST! After all these years of Cycles, a quick way to drop objects in environments without render layers and a massive compositing node tree! That single check box is the most powerful Blender upgrade for a long time. Thanks for the quick and efficient description Jayanam.
:-) I am very glad you like it,
Where is this feature? Still not in the official release? Do I need to download some ancient nightly build?
As I said, it is in the nightly builds, not in the release build, the link can be found in the video's description.
now i just need to learn how to composit cgi over a image so that it looks as it wouldn't be cgi.