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Figure 17-39
compositing — most notably Worley Labs'
G2, which does many other things for your
rendering as well, including letting you see
changes to your render in real time.)
But here, we're going to show you how
to composite shadows using the basics of
LightWave
right out of the box
, without
having to own a separate compositing pro-
gram or buy additional software or
anything!
First, we've got to have something that
“catches” the shadows cast by the 'droids.
This “shadow-catcher” is just a simple bit
of geometry that
mimics
the general shape
Figure 17-40
