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Sugestion to add new option

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stipend:
ooh, add joining (point merging) to multiple paths :D

VBSmiles:
Interesting Idea.... An "alpha shadow" of sort.

Steve:
I'm still not completely sure how to define this.  Suppose there is a new "Shadow" material.  It seems that to work with traditional alpha channels the alpha value for this material would be used as the percent (strength) of the shadow and the color channel would be black or what ever color you wanted the shadow to look.  When rendered the alpha channel would get (1 minus alpha) from the shadow material and the color channel would get it's color.

sagedavis:
Goram, Actually, VB gave you a hint, and I'll expand on this a little bit.
The green screen technique is used all the time in movies and can easily be used with anim8or.

Set your background to green and make a shadow receiving (but not casting) green plane.
Now you can render your video and the shadow should be there.
You can now easily edit the video to make the green color transparent in your video editing software.
All the major NLE programs will allow this technique, including many of the free ones.

Remember, there aren't many things you can use 3d rendering programs for other than, games, still images, and video, so, chances are someone here has dealt with the same thing. Perhaps one of us has even used your exact NLE and can help you further.

Sage

computeruser28:
this suggestion is very useful for compositing.

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