Hello,
so my goal is to reach a render like this one here
the refraction and reflections come from an HDRI. but the shadow comes from a sun or area light.
currently when i combine both lights i get a result like this
i tried increasing the intensity of the area light but then the highlights get way to bright.
this is how my area light look like
do i have to combine both shadow layers in post production? or is there a way to get the result in the first picture in arnold.
cheers
that didn't work for me.
is there a way to exclude the hdri from the Shadowmatte? that would be the easiest.
otherwise i have this odd shadows on the car.
Sorry for the late response
You shouldn't need to do this if you have an HDRI with a strong enough sunlight source. Unfortunately, these are rare.
You could use the Per Light visibility and/or light linking to control this with multiple lights.
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