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The Shadow Render Element is a color image that works as a reverse mask for shadows and can be used to lighten, darken or tint shadows. Shadows can be lightened in the composite by adding this pass, or darkened by subtracting this render pass from the final composite.

The VRayShadows render element is the product of multiplying the vrayRE_Raw_Shadow Render Element with the vrayRE_Diffuse Render Element in the composite.

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title UI Path: ||Display Render Settings button|| > Render Elements tab > Shadow
Section Column width 25% Column width 50% Multiexcerpt include MultiExcerptName RE PageWithExcerpt Render Elements Column width 25%   Image Removed   To use render elements, select from the Available render elements column and click the Add button to add the passes you wish to generate at render time. When you render the scene, the added render elements listed in the column on the right, will also render, which can be viewed from the VFB window's channel drop-down menu. For more information on the parameters on this dialog, see the Render Elements tab page.

Enabled – – When enabled, the render element appears in the V-Ray Virtual Frame Buffer.

Deep output – Specifies whether to include this render element in deep images.

Filename suffix – The text added to the end of the rendered file, when saved as a separate file (e.g. myrender.shadow.vrimg).

Apply color mapping – Applies the color mapping options specified in the Color mappingManagement rollout of the VRay tab in the Render Settings window to this render element. This option is enabled by default.

Denoise – Enables the render element's denoising, provided the Denoiser render element is present.