specular reflections only?

[kimgar]

hi there!

i've got this 1920x640 animation on a pretty tight deadline, and i'm looking for ways to cut rendertimes.

rendertimes are ok with a plain material, but i would like to have at least one specular highlight, so now i wonder if it is possible to render with specular highlights only and disregard other reflections?

[instinct]

Turn off "Trace Reflections" in the mat options. Then reflections are disregarded while speculars are regarded.

Regards,
Thorsten

[kimgar]

aaaah, the wonders of this forum, thanks thorsten! that did the trick!