Blender Tutorial: Hide Object from Render but keep shadow "Cycles and Eevee"

How do you hide the plane but keep the shadow?

exactly what I was looking for
thanks

this video gets a massive 👍 from me

Thank you!

do you have any idea how to make an object appeared behind a hidden object

steven saves the day again ! just what i needed, thx for sharing, love the accent, have fun, godspeed

1000th like was mine
Thanks man

So if i had a characrter casting shadow on a plane, I want to hide the plane but keep the shadow cast by the character in the render it should work the same way right?

ThanX Men ❤️👍

Thanks. I sometimes need this and always forgot. Here is the best, simplest solution.

but object have 2 shadows, under object and on the object. How to disable shadow on the object?

How can we get the same result with evee?

can we do that in viewport shading preview?

something so simple, that I didn’t know lol, thank you so much!!

Hello! Thank you for a very informative video! I wanted to apply this to an entire scene (100+ objects), however, the "alt" method did not seem to work for me. I selected all the objects, held "alt" and tried to select the "camera" option under ray visibility...however, the program would not allow me to do it. My objective is to only see the shadows and no objects in the scene. Thank you again for posting this video!

Exactly what i need

thanks god for your quick tutorial, wish all tutorials where this quick

Big help thanks!

Thank you so much!

I think this one is the best short tutorial to understand ...thank you man

I've been trying to make a render with a car and a real picture as a background. Since there's some objects in that image that cast shadows in the asphalt, I had to create objects in the scene so the car can get those shadows too. But then I ran into the problem of: How do I make these objects invisible but still cast shadow on the scene?? Steven Scott came to the rescue!
Thank you so much Steven! You saved me a lot of time and patience! 😅🤣 Cheers!

Does this reduce memory? For instance, if I have an extremely high poly model I have to render separately from the rest of the scene dude to memory… will it reduce the memory?

Clear and simple.Thank you man!

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thank you!

only listening to scottish blender tutorials from now on

Thanks so much man, very creative solution ! Saved my life.
Cant believe in eevee the "indirect only" option doesnt work like in cycles, turning off the primary visibility of the object...
Hope they change it in the future.
Keep up the good work !

Helpful! In Eevee with a complex character, you have to copy the character and assign all the parts the same invisible texture.

We're essentially making a luminance key for the shadow. There really needs to be a built in way to do this some day.

Thank you.

Can I exclude an object from a light source?

Works well, thank you :)

But, how to use this method in Eevee? Because, don't forget for Eevee users... :)

the image does not disappear but rather shows up as a black object.. any ideas?

I have downloaded models and want them placed in the render with the background image say of a open land but I need to hide the plane shape on the ground for the shadows to appear on the item on the render.
Will your method work on this?

thnx man u saved me. i really needed this for school

i freakin' love scottish english... :D

Hello I am making a thor vfx. I want to hold thor’s hammer but the thor hammer comes above my hand can you suggest me a way by which I can make my hand over the handle

It works for me, except when use camera perspective. Do you know why maybe?

Thank you! Always forgetting about that!))

Any tutorial under 2 minutes deserves a like. Also subbed for the nice accent

Great tuto man. i want to know, hava a way to reflect light in a plane and hide the plane in render keeping the light bouncing?

I like your south African accent😃

Thank you for showing how to hide objects on render! I really couldn't figure this out in the new UI.

Thanks just tested it bounces light too which is great for me.

nice, thanks

thank you brother

Thank you!!!👍🏻👍🏻

"not the best method" he said. I desagree lol . tks for the tutorial, helped a lot!! :)

Thank you!

This is very helpful, thanks.