unable to rebuild combined image from passes if shadow catcher enabled because the shadow catcher data is missing from the alpha channel #96758
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Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.19042-SP0 64 Bits
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 472.12
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Broken: version: 3.1.0 Beta, branch: master, commit date: 2022-02-18 21:28, hash:
93cc892470Worked: (newest version of Blender that worked as expected)
I develop an addon which rebuilds the combined image from the passes and then outputs to an image format with an alpha channel. If a shadow catcher is in the scene, then it seems impossible to get the correct result in the re-combined image because the shadow catcher data is missing from the alpha pass.
test file:
Turbo_Test_02.blend
Added subscriber: @3di
Added subscriber: @brecht
Changed status from 'Needs Triage' to: 'Archived'
You can choose to render the shadow catcher as alpha or as a separate pass to be multiplied into the background. You have set up the latter in this file, so there's not going to be an influence on the alpha channel.
@brecht Where is this option please?
It's the shadow catcher pass that you enabled.
ah never mind, you just disable the pass. Thanks.
@brecht this still isn't producing the correct result, sorry I've never used the shadow catcher when rebuilding from passes. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong?
or is it just a case of the plane needing to be black?
Added subscriber: @lichtwerk
This doesn't appear to be a user issue. I think the shadow catcher objects need to show as black in the diffuse direct and indirect passes (where there is no indirect lighting), this way the alpha will leave just the shadow and indirect lighting.
The glossy passes are fine because they automatically show as black where there's no reflection. Haven't tested transmission passes.
I can't do it using the shadow catcher pass, because this removes it from the alpha.
@brecht can you re-open this?
@lichtwerk could you also have a look just to make sure this is not a user issue at my side?
@3di: is the latest file the one from the report description?
Thanks @lichtwerk I'm pretty desperate on this one as someone just asked for refund because of it. So hopefully it is just something I'm doing wrong.
Here's a simpler version
rebuild combined from passes with shadow catcher.blend
will look at it tomorrow
thanks. I'm pretty sure it's a bug as I'm quite skilled in this area (been doing it for 20 years), but perhaps there is some Blender specific thing that I'm missing.
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9ef400ddf7Changed status from 'Archived' to: 'Resolved'
thanks @brecht much appreciated. Did you discard the diffuse direct only and keep the indirect pass for the shadow catcher? Indirect could be kept as that renders black already where there's no indirect light. Would be nice to keep the indirect light if possible as that's included in the alpha
Hi The shadow catcher's diffuse colour is still being written to the diffuse direct pass in today's daily build of 3.1.1:
@lichtwerk could you re-open this?
Fix is only in 3.2 (if this is what you meant -- or did you mean to reopen because of indirect?)
ah ok, sorry, I thought the bug fixes were applied to all daily's. I'll check now. It shouldn't have affected the indirect passes hopefully, as they are already black where there's no indirect lighting data.
@lichtwerk I've just checked in 3.2 and although the shadow catcher's diffuse colour have been removed from the DiffDir pass (allowing it to work), it's also been unncecessarily removed from the DiffInd and gloss passes, resulting in loss of indirect lighting and reflection. Ideally these should have been left alone, as now all the GI etc has been lost. These can be left alone because they render black where there's no data anyway.
The shadow catcher makes no distinction between diffuse and glossy, or direct and indirect, and they do not behave fundamentally differently when it comes to what renders black or not in general. Diffuse direct light is not special here and should not be treated as such.
ah ok. I just thought if you only removed the shadow catcher from the DiffDir, then we could still have indirect lighting and reflection. The only issue was the shadow catchers diffuse colour showing up on the diffDir pass (making the shadow catcher visible when combining the image).