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To make an object as a holdout, simply check Holdout in the geometry's RenderMan | Trace Tab or use the Shelf Button.

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Your fully shaded objects will now catch shadows and render environmental effects like indirect diffuse light and reflections. This allows you to integrate CG objects into a filmed or live action plate by catching the shadows and effects of the CG object onto holdout geometry made to look like the filmed environment.

The appropriate extra channels are added to the selected ROP node to output a shadow pass.


You will need to setup the correct outputs and displays after choosing your holdout objects.

  • occluded, unoccluded, shadow AOVs should be added to display, these require the corresponding LPE. Below are three color LPE preceded by their name.

    shadow
    occluded lpe:holdouts;C[DS]+[LO]
    unoccluded lpe:holdouts;unoccluded;C[DS]+[LO]

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  • PxrShadowDisplayFilter vop must be created and added to ROP as display filter (in Advanced Tab)

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  • The AOV parameters on the display filter should reference the AOV names created above


To preview this effect while interactively rendering, you could make use of an additional display filter after the shadow display filter: PxrImageDisplayFilter Include PageREN23:HoldoutsREN23:Holdouts