Shadow Catcher plane

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Hello,

We want to render a Vehicle on top of a 2D Background / HDR sphere, or with transparent background and include the shadow of the sun light. Therefor we want to have a “Shadow Catcher Plane” like this one https://docs.chaos.com/display/VMAX/V-Ray+Shadow+Catcher.

We did some research but this seems not the be possible out of the box, we tried different Material and PostProcessMaterial aproaches.

How can we archive this ? Best so its visible in the viewport as well and not only when rendering.

Thanks.

Best,

Dominic

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Hello, yes there is no native “shadow catcher” in the engine. There are a few plugins and techniques on youtube that people use with post process materials. If you are rendering offline you can go the oldschool route and put a white lambertish material on the ground and catch your shadows that way. But there is no native/official way to do this unfortunately.