how to make an object that...

[thomes]

hi

how to make an object that contributes to the lightsolution-gi (a selfilluminated helperobject...), but is not seen in reflection?

thanks for help
thomes

[Gijs]

uncheck visible to reflection and visible to camera (right-click on object --> properties...)

[thomes]

hi gijs

that doesn´t work...i want it to contribute to gi!

thomes

[Sushidelic]

You could use a vraylight and tick "invisible" and "store with irradiance map", if it is just emitting colored light, even build a box with 6 instanced vraylights.
Or if you use a saved irradiance map, you can leave the box in your scene for calculation (better check "invisible to camera"), and then hide it when using the "from file" option.
Hope this may help.
greetings, Michael

[thomes]

ok michael...
that´s a good workaround...i forgot to think that way...

to gijs...sorry...
i was back in 1.09 and there it doesn´t work... must be a bug there...
with 1-46 it works good...

thanx a lot for help thomes ****SUSHIDELIC LOOK FOR PRIVAT MESSAGE***

[Sushidelic]

Just tried it out myself - and it works! It really works! Looks like Vlado did the trick and you can now make objects emit GI while beeing invisible to reflections... Never saw this in a changelog, and that's one of the features i've always been waiting for! Great news, they did it again.

PS: Thomes, ich bin auch aus Stuttgart, kennen wir uns vielleicht?

[vlado]

Yeah, you can control GI visibility separately from the VRay Object Settings dialog.

Best regards,
Vlado

[thomes]

hey sushidelic

look at your privat message here in the forum

grüsse thomes