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I wish maxwell has above option for the object.

Isn't it something that would give wrong results?

don't care, we need it

this would be absolutely great for compositing...

The lack of a shadow matte object has made it so that we don't use Maxwell for any compositing shots, which is too bad because we absolutely would otherwise. But we have to use a different renderer that supports shadow matte surfaces so that we can collect the shadows for later compositing.

But I appreciate that this requires significant attention in a Maxwell-style renderer in order to produce correct results. It's a very touchy problem.

- Casey

ya i wanted to use a AGS type solution to creat a "shadow" matte. .but it hasnt worked out yet.. but i was thinking of that since the ags has a ghost layer.. i thought that ghost layer could catch a shadow.. but no.. so maybe there could be a way of doing shadow matte with ags type trick?

but shadow catcher seems prety vital to be able to composite..