Help - Shadows not changing colour

[Christoff]

I primarily use Max and don't tend to use Maya much but I am for a current university project and parts of Maya confuse me. I've got a very basic scene with some match-moved data with camera footage as a background. This footage has a desk in it which I am animating a hand walking along it, I have a modified box object to recreate a desk in the footage to allow the shadows of the hand to be cast onto it, however when I try to change the colour of the shadows nothing happens, the shadows appear grey/black. I've also discovered even when the light isn't in the scene the shadows are still present, why is this and how can I change the colour? I can provide the maya files if anyone wants to have a look at them, can't post images or links here though due to not having posted enough.

Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

[Wallfish]

Here is a small solution to your thing....
i use max and also do maya....
do as i did in the image 1 and 2 and i hope that i understood ur question...
can u put some screen captures for an idea about ur problem?
all the best with your projects(ask me about school projects .... i hate them!)

[Christoff]

Hi, thanks for your help, unfortunately the reason the shadows weren't changing colour was because I was using the UseBackground material which does not support coloured shadows, I had to render them as a separate pass and edit in After Effects. Also, the 'shadows' that were appearing even when no lights were in the scene were caused by final gather being enabled.