Compositing node

Drop Shadow

Casts a soft offset shadow of the image's silhouette behind it, with Offset X/Y for direction and distance and Opacity/Color for its look.

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The Drop Shadow node in Infinite, showing its inputs, controls and outputs.

What it does

Drop Shadow is a compositing node: it layers, masks and routes pictures. It takes picture in and gives picture out.

Inputs and outputs

Inputs

  • picture input

Outputs

  • picture out

Controls

Every control with a range can be driven by a modulator, a note, an audio level or a sketch.

ControlRange or optionsDefault
offset x-20 to 204
offset y-20 to 204
opacity0 to 10.600000024

Example patch

This patch wires Drop Shadow to what it needs and shows the result. Download it, then use File, Open in Infinite, or read it here: it is plain text.

infinite-patch 1
rev 2
# Drop Shadow: a starting patch for the Drop Shadow node
node 1 Compositing dropshadow
  id node
  pos 520 300
end
node 2 Source Ramp
  id in0
  pos 0 300
end
node 3 Utility Output
  id out
  pos 1080 300
end
cable node 0 in0
cable out 0 node

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