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  Re: Transparent plane with non-transparent shadows?  
From: Trevor Quayle
Date: 7 Dec 2001 12:03:30
Message: <3c10f662$1@news.povray.org>
"bob h" <omn### [at] charternet> wrote in message
news:3c10f429@news.povray.org...
> "Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
> news:3c10b516@news.povray.org...
> > bob h <omn### [at] charternet> wrote:
> > : Maybe  no_image  is all you need to put in the plane.
> >
> >   If you don't see the plane, you don't see the shadow cast onto it
> either...
>
> You might have misunderstood the idea, or maybe I did.  If it's about
using
> a transparent object to cast a shadow onto a nontransparent object then
the
> following should do okay.

No, I think he wants a plane (say in mid air) upon which shadows are cast
and are visible, but where there is no shdow, is completely transparent.

-tgq


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