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New version from 26. Sept. 2015

When you set a photo as a background of your scene it looks not so real because of missing shadows.
This shader creates … more »

New version from 26. Sept. 2015

When you set a photo as a background of your scene it looks not so real because of missing shadows.
This shader creates a shadow on an (in the rendered pic) invisible plane.
So you can set figures in real photos and this will look a bit more real.

- Entzip the files and save them in a Shader-subfolder where other shaders are saved.
  It should be in the folder /Shaders/mbarnick/. This is the path to the dsf-file that is saved in the duf-file. You can see it when you open it with a texteditor.
- if you get an error message of a missing file then copy the dsf-file to /data/mbarnick/ShadowCatcher/ShadowCatcher/ShadowCatcher.dsf
- create a plane from your create -> primitive - tab and mark it in the scene-tab.
- the plane should have a black color.
- mark it also in the surface-tab
- apply this shader
- set a figure on the plane and create a sunlight with a raytraced shadow
- render
- if you get an error message of a missing filepath then copy the dsf-file to /data/Markus Barnick/ShadowCatcher/ShadowCatcher/ShadowCatcher.dsf

in the surface-tab click on the plane and at "default". You see a label "Mix (4)". That comes from the ShaderMixer. Here you can set the opacity of the shadow.

Try it and have fun

This file is made with help from www.shadowmap.de « Less