#Shadow drop to gif transparent image skin

Render the objects and cast the shadow image map onto the background by I then use a second POV render stage, with normal intensity lighting, to That the surface onto which the shadows are cast becomes 100% white Rendered without alpha, but with very bright lighting (I use rgb 10) so One is for the shadows and has special lighting. My usual method for this sort of thing is to do two renders, the first That all parts of the surface that are visible from your camera position Might prevent it casting self shadows, but you probably need to ensure Pass to the complex surface that you want to cast the shadow onto? That Have you tried applying the 'no_shadow' keyword in your shadow rendering Is there a better way to do this, than mine? > So, we have a problem - to get image of our object and it's shadow and nothing >else at all. But this method first: needs 2 render >stages, second: sutable only for shadows on planes (because more complex >surfaces will produce >shadows too). And when I placed my character into 2d scene I discovered a >PROBLEM - it has no shadow! May be anybody did the same and solved the problem? > I have only one idea - to render character without shadow but with alpha >channel in first sequence, and shadow without object in second, and then use >images of second sequence as >alpha chanel of completely black image. It was >simple to render it into tga files each frame with alpha channel and import >into Adobe Premiere as >numdered stills. > I used POV-Ray to make a character moving over some video background. maybe if I ever get back to working on Slime-POV. This would be easily solved if POV-Ray supported a 'shadow function' of some Subject: Re: shadow on transparent background So, we have a problem - to get image of our object and it's shadow and nothing elseĪt all. Second: sutable only for shadows on planes (because more complex surfaces will produce But this method first: needs 2 render stages, I have only one idea - to render character without shadow but with alpha channel inįirst sequence, and shadow without object in second, and then use images of secondĪlpha chanel of completely black image. It has no shadow! May be anybody did the same and solved the problem? And when I placed my character into 2d scene I discovered a PROBLEM. Render it into tga files each frame with alpha channel and import into Adobe Premiere I used POV-Ray to make a character moving over some video background. Subject: shadow on transparent background Shadow on transparent background (Message 1 to 8 of 8) POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : shadow on transparent background With this there is no need to set a matte color.POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.advanced-users: shadow on transparent background Unless you have a reason not to, this is what I would use. The PNG-24 however, now that's a thing of beauty no matter where you put it. GIF will look like hot crap on a cold plate. If you put it over any other color than that for which it was intended though, you can see in the image below that the. If you are going to be placing the image over a solid background then it should look okay.

#Shadow drop to gif transparent image skin

Since I'm using the JambleTan skin the difference is glaringly obvious to me. You may or may not notice a difference in this case. Here is the same thing saved as a PNG-24. It should look decent if you are viewing the site with the default color scheme of yellow and blue. GIF with a Matte color that matches the darker FK yellow. You want to set this to match the background color of whatever the image will be placed over. When you hit Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S to bring up the save dialogue the option is on the far right amongst all that other stuff. I think perhaps the only piece you were missing was assigning the Matte color.