Maya: IBL Light Emission problem

Ericoscarj

So the problem is that i do not know how to render the shadow caused by the light emission from the IBL.
The only way i can render it is by using "use Background" shader, but i do not want to do that as my final render. I want to be able to render it solo, with a render pass, for example.

Please any help would be appreciated, i am in a hurry.

engelmanna

Look into the Mental Ray production shaders. Specifically, the mip_rayswitch and mip_matteshadow. This page has a ton of great examples to get you headed in the right direction: http://mentalraytips.blogspot.com/2007/10/production-shader-examples.html