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Typical white gauze materiak settings
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RobLuggar
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2022-11-28 22:39

    Hello

    I'm lighting 42nd street in March and I have to reproduce the shadow theatre section with front shadow onto a white gauze, and then backlit shadow projection onto the back of the gauze.

    I see it is possible to model a gauze material and map it to a surface.  My question is, what values are typical for the sort of slightly grubby theatre stock white gauze to be representative.  I can adjust transparency anb back projection until it looks OK, but it's difficult to know how realistic that is.

    I believe for shadow theatre the light source would typically be a large fresnel with the lens removed to present as much as possible a coherent point light source.  Is there a way to simulate that in Capture (I'm running 2021)?

    Thanks

    Sirje Ruohtula
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    2025-02-20 12:59

    Hi, this is an old post, but was interesting for me because I have the same problem with the black gauze. In addition of the shadows from both sides, we need to see the actor through in the other area of the same gauze. I could not find a really simle and good solution for it. I made two layers, one as a gauze and the other one as a backprojection, but the whole thing is somewhat complicated. I wish there were a ready-made material named Gobelin tull, sharkstooth black.
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