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Adjusting the Shadow Catcher for CINEMA 4D

Adjusting the Shadow Catcher for CINEMA 4D

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Adjusting the Shadow Catcher for CINEMA 4D

When using the 3D camera tracker in Aftereffects, you can ask it to create what is called a shadow catcher. And a shadow catcher is a layer designed just to cast shadows in Aftereffects. So when I put a new element in and light shines through it, this layer will contain shadows only. And it won't contain any pixels, apart from the shadows. So it's a really good way of being able to composite shadows onto elements. And it's done by after effects automatically creating a layer that has except shadows only. So if I switch that to off, you'll see it's a regular layer. If I switch it to on It will have shadows and the pixels, and if I say only, it will only contain shadows. So After Effects does that for you. Now what we are going to do is we are going to create a similar thing in CINEMA 4D, but before we bring it into CINEMA 4D, I just want to correct the rotation. You'll notice it's not, rotated in the correct way, to fit in with the top of the building there. So all we're going to do is…

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