Now apply a new material to the plain (this is what we want to act as our shadow catcher). Lets create a scene and place a box hovering over a plane.Ĭhoose the ' General' settings tab and change the following, ' Type' to ' Omni' and ' Shadow' to ' Shadow Maps (Soft)'. PC = C:/program files/MAXON/plugins/b Step 3. Then unzip the download and place it in the C4D plugins folder (Should be found in the same directory as the application) It has been tested in Cinema 4D R9 through to R17.ĭOWNLOAD: ShadowCatcher for C4D repo Step 1. So for this tutorial you can download it from this site ( It's FREE). Luckily after pages and pages I finally managed to track it down back in 2008. I had been searching for ages to try and find the C4D ShadowCatcher plugin. Using shadow catcher we can render the character and shadow (with alpha) without the floor. We want to composite this with an image in photoshop. Here is the scenario, we have a 3D character walking across the floor while casting a shadow. What does the shadow catcher plugin allow? Part 2 - use Advanced Compositing to separate the object and shadow alphas. Part 1 - install the plugin and create a basic 3D scene (This page).

Because the last one was extremely delicious ).UPDATE: Shadow catcher is now a built-in material and compositing feature in version Cinema 4D R18 onwards by default.

Fixed problems with material selectionsĬake The “Corona for C4D Alpha v2” cake.

Partially fixed problems with 3D shaders used on sky.

Fixed freezes when using original C4D scene for material preview.

Fixed problem with missing objects in interactive rendering.

Fixed incorrectly applied gamma correction on shaders in glossiness/IOR.

Removed logging output during preview rendering.

Sun intensity is now independent of its size.

Added possibility to override various camera properties from global settings.

Added basic system-wide preferences (as opposed to scene-wide).

Added support for custom aperature shape.

Reworked render settings UI to match 3ds max version more closely.

Uses Corona 1.0 core (with all its stability, performance, and rendering quality improvements).

Added multipass support (render elements).

It is compatible with Cinema4D R14/R15/R16. It fixes all major problems of the previous version, and brings the Corona 1.0 core to Cinema4D, along with some new important features. After a lot of hard work, we can finally present you the second Alpha release of Corona plugin for Cinema4D.

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