SElecting white for background and sky colour

[NPS]

Hi all I just downloaded V4 and want to have a product with a totally white background and sky with very soft shadows. I though the obvious way would be to select sun and sky and change the sky and background colour to white but this is not working for me. Can you tell me how to achieve a completely white background with very soft shadows?


Cheers

[Support]

Hi,

I see what you mean. Soft shadows is not a problem, it will do that, but the background is from the physical sky. What we can do is add a new setting to set the background color, which will do tomorrow. But for now, what you can do is save the rendered image as a transparent PNG and put the background you like using an image editor.

[NPS]

Thanks for that, great support and quick! Could you tell me how to make the soft shadows? I know I could follow some tutes but am on a deadline and have just bought a licence for the Company, we are looking at changing over to Raylactron for all our designers shortly should it work out. The suggestion of the transparent background is great, thanks!

(edited) will the transparency pic up the soft shadows?

(edit 2) I have bought a licence but have not received the activation code yet.

[Support]

Soft shadows is what Raylectron do, so you don't have to setup anything for that. In fact, shadows are real, according to your light source. For the sun, the shadows are just what they are in real life, very soft shadows for object further away from the shadowed area, and not too soft when the object is very close, like real life.

Yes, the transparent background will pickup the shadow,

I've seen your other post, our emails went in your spam box! But now you have it so that's good.

[Support]

Now that I think more about this, I think you should use the transparent background when saving the render as a PNG rather than having a white background in the render. The reason, you can then change the background to anything else without the need to render it again.