invisible wall but with gi?

[digitarch]

i have to do an interior shot of an small room with but with 40mm-camera, so i have to put the camera OUTSIDE the room. but how can i hide the wall "in front of the camera" and its windows but make them influence the gi and reflections of the inside?
matthias

[mike.edel]

maybe try to make the wall and the windows seperate object and uncheck "visible to camera" in their properties - dont know if vray respects that setting though

[DanielBrew]

Hi Mattias,

Have you tried camera clipping? I know Vlado used to say it could cause problems but I have used it loads of times without any mysterious red/green dots appearing.

Dan

[stephan_MA]

mike is right!

worked for me!

Stephan

[Jerry]

Clipping absolutely... untill now zero problems..

[Da_elf]

i thought the dont render option also worked. worked for me once when i had to take the roof off of a building to get a top down view

[digitarch]

hey, thanks a lot - clipping seems to work nicely. didn´t think it would work that easy. gi-bounces from the "invisible" wall works fine, but i still didn´t try the reflections from the "invisible" window. might be another problem....
matthias