Is this even possible? (452562)

Unity Engine
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Hi there

I have a rather weird question that I was wondering; I have an extra camera in my scene and this camera is set to render to a texture. Now in my game world I also have some specific models. When walking around with my normal camera I only want to render their shadow, not the model itself. When I look at the rendered texture though I would like the model to be rendered there.

I got this idea about a horror game where you have to walk around with a camera to view ghosts, or else you will only see their shadow :slight_smile:

Alternatively I could also go with a route where the ghost is only rendered on one camera but not the other. Is this possible to achieve?

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yes, you can use the culling mask of the camera to render specific layers.
you would also need to render the shadows without the models. This is also possible: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/79560-CullingMask-a-layer-but-still-see-it-s-shadows

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Seems to be exactly what I’m looking for, thank you very much! It’s pretty incredible all the things you can do in Unity…