[HELP] Casting shadows on self-illumination material

adirx20

Hi guys, I'm working on 3ds Max and I have a camera projection on my scene, which means all the objects that get projected are self iiluminated.

Now I have 2 models in the scene and I want them to cast shadows on the floor (which is also self iiluminated).

I tried to render VrayShadow's seperate channel but it didn't work.

Any idea? THANKS!

Octo

You should not use self illuminated materials for the projected textures geometry.
There's materials specifically for this. I haven't used vray in years, but such materials are often called matte/shadow something.
Like this although this example is a bit old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KEAl0kJSdo

adirx20

Till now all the projected materials I used were self illuminated.

In the video it looks like he creates a matte alpha layer on top of the projected object, I will give it a try, Thanks a lot.

adirx20

Well I tried it and it didn't work for my scene. Maybe I didn't understand it right from this 40 secs video or maybe it's just not the way to do it in my case. thanks anyway! any other idea?