Hello everyone. I can’t solve this problem for like month, so I will be glad for any advice. I try to place objects on real photography, so in order to make objects reflection on the floor/walls, I need to apply matte wrapper material to floor/walls as a shadow catcher and make the walls invisible t…

Is the material’s texture from a PNG or a JPG ? I known that PNG images in SketchUp don’t ‘receive shadows’, but JPG ones do ? Is there a setting to affect this ? Vray is not my métier…

Material’s texture is from Vray’s library, so there yould be no reason for the wrapper to reflect material, but not to catch shadows :confused: But thank you for your reply :slight_smile:

Looks like a Vray material setting… [image] Cant get shadow on matte object in Vray: Please Help I am trying to get some rendering with matte background plane, but having problem to get the shadow on matte object. I am using HDRI for lighting. I have tried making the object matte by ena…

You need to switch to CPU render, not CUDA/RTX. [wra-02]

Honestly, I don’t even have CUDA/RTX option, I have only CPU/GPU and I always render on CPU. But thank you for your response :slight_smile:

I’ve already tried every setting combination, still no success… I’ve been struggling with it for couple weeks now and have tried every guide I was able to find on the internet…

You’re welcome! [image] R.Kasparec: I have only CPU/GPU Try switching from one to another and see if it works. (CPU > GPU, or GPU > CPU) As you saw in the animated GIF, it is possible, and it’s working.

Okay, so after some playing with the CPU/GPU and different settings: on CPU rendering there are no shadows, but reflection is fine, on GPU matte catches shadows, but doesn’t reflect objects :confused:

Wrapper material in Vray for Sketchup doesn't catch shadows

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mihai.s June 17, 2020, 2:05pm 5

You need to switch to CPU render, not CUDA/RTX.

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Wrapper material in Vray for Sketchup doesn't catch shadows

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