That may sound counter intuitive but it is simply how RenderMan shading works.
His distinctive and beautiful images are a timeless testimony to his passion for and dedication to these people. Curtis by Native Americans in the early 1900's when he used his camera to capture over 40,000 images of their people, tribes and ways of life. I know the footage is incredibly grainy, I'm just using this as a test to practice my skills I'm learning.Ĭlearly I am new to compositing and Maya, but this is all part of the learning process. The main focus of the lights design is aimed at faster shadow calculation. What is a 'Shadow Catcher' This moniker was bestowed upon Edward S. If I were to use that, would it still understand the lights coming from the area lights in the scene, or would it only register light from the Image Based Lights? I am not using Image Based Lighting which I think is the reason that mip_matteshadow does not work. I have placed the objects onto the scene, including a plane on the desk and keyboard to catch shadows. I am using footage that is lens corrected and camera tracked. I don't fully understand both options, but to my knowledge they won't work in my situation. I've tried use background shader and mip_matteshadow to no avail. As for order you've got this mostly right, diffuse first, all your other light passes added on top (including spec), and then use the shadow pass to grade your plate as mentioned before.Here's the lowdown: I need to make a shadow catcher that will have an opacity and render JUST the shadows. Personally I don't bother with that most of the time and just worry about the shadows. Adding up all our GI, diffuse, reflections, and secular will give us the beauty pass, that's all the render engine is doing but here you've set it up to give you separate AOVs. I think inverting the shadow pass and then merging it in with your plate as a multiply blend mode is also valid if you want to take that approach.Īlso when doing work on lighting passes you'll want to use add for anything that involves light. Because you don't have any footage in here other than your CG when you put the shadow pass overtop and shuffle it into RGB all you're going to get is white and it's not going to look right at all. Your restaurant shop are in debt, you cant pay for the rent or continue operate your business in a few days. Shadow passes can be used as alphas to drive a grade node so that you can use the multiply function to grade down your plate as if the CG objects were casting a shadow. by location and times, Light Portal, Shadow Catcher, IBL and Environment texture, Highlight Placement, Light Mixer. buy now 595.00 RenderMan (Includes Tractor) buy now Professional. Shadow Catcher Sketch & Toon Art, Hatch, Spot (halftone) shaders. Trying to learn on my own so y'all are the only resource I have. buy now 250.00 RenderMan - Annual Maintenance Renewal. Preview everything from your scene: Shadows, Transparency, Reflections, SSAO. I can use a CC node to make it black, but still seems weird and like it will cause me problems.Īlso also, should most of my blending modes just be "over" for the merge nodes? Watched the foundry tutorial and that seems to be what they just left it at. Anything you might think I am doing wrong would be good to know.Īlso, should my shadow pass look like this? I am used to it being white with the shadows black(and then use a multiply blending mode), though this is when I was using AE and not rendering with redshift.
I am pretty new to vfx in general, especially nuke, so I want to make sure I am learning the optimal workflow. This saves rendering time when creating the shadow map and also eliminates the possibility. I still feel like I am not using the optimal workflow though. or floors) can be eliminated from the shadow map pass entirely.
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I literally feel like I have no idea how to use nuke after trying to figure this out for so long and its extremely frustrating.Įdit: I switched my first merge to multiply(the one that merged my diffuse) and it seems like it has made my final look just like my beauty(except my beauty doesn't have the shadows, only the shadow pass does). I've been playing around with it for an hour and can't figure out what to do. I was able to get the correct alpha, so I thought I would be able to use the alpha to restrict the rgb or something but I can't use the rgb from all my passes since the plane is in the rgb data. Ive tried to see how to just render the shadowcatcher and so far Ive had no luck. I am not sure if I am just compositing wrong or if this render is wrong, but after I merge everything the plane is still present. If I do that with the shadow pass, it losses the alpha from the shadow catcher and it affects the whole scene. This has posed an issue when compositing within nuke for me. I have started using the shadow catcher in redshift and it is making my DiffuseFilter include a large plane.
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