Blender Tutorial: Hide Object from Render but keep shadow 'Cycles and Eevee'

A very quick Blender tutorial showing a fast method for hiding the object in the render but keeping the shadow.

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[fyshman]

Man, that’s so much simpler than what I did, at least for cycles! I always did some trickery with a light path node and a mix shader!

[jr-bhrm]

wow, this is exactly what i need for my project right now.

[LostInPripiat]

I've been trying to make a render with a car and a real picture as a background. Since there's some objects in that image that cast shadows in the asphalt, I had to create objects in the scene so the car can get those shadows too. But then I ran into the problem of: How do I make these objects invisible but still cast shadow on the scene?? Steven Scott came to the rescue!
Thank you so much Steven! You saved me a lot of time and patience! 😅🤣 Cheers!

[westernzendara]

I think this one is the best short tutorial to understand ...thank you man

[Wilfightyounaked]

thanks god for your quick tutorial, wish all tutorials where this quick

[johnsmith]

Thanks. I sometimes need this and always forgot. Here is the best, simplest solution.

[humansrants]

Thanks just tested it bounces light too which is great for me.

[levilukeskytrekker]

Thank you for showing how to hide objects on render! I really couldn't figure this out in the new UI.

[aumhren]

steven saves the day again ! just what i needed, thx for sharing, love the accent, have fun, godspeed

[math-rqmn]

something so simple, that I didn’t know lol, thank you so much!!

[thugger]

How can I hide the object in my render but keep the shadow on the object coming from other objects and projecting on it. Please tell me how to do it

[TheGoldenFrost]

Your accent was a blessing, and thanks for the helpful tut! :)

[dfgoijoi]

exactly what I was looking for
thanks

[cellshade]

Thank you so much! This is going to be extremely helpful! 👍

[ancientgreek]

thnx man u saved me. i really needed this for school

[MrKezives]

"not the best method" he said. I desagree lol . tks for the tutorial, helped a lot!! :)

[verxvikx]

Thank you! Always forgetting about that!))

[thewalkingrex]

Never done it before. Thanks, cheers.

[tripplejaz]

Any tutorial under 2 minutes deserves a like. Also subbed for the nice accent

[drumboarder]

It's weird how round about it is to get this working in Eevee, it'd make sense for them to add a couple sliders below the check box if you're using Eevee

EDIT: How would you go about doing it in the compositor, I've added some chromatic aberration but beyond that I haven't come across much of a use for it despite how people talk about it