is there no way to reflect environment without reflecting everything else

[Morbid Angel]

In vray material you must have reflection enabled to reflect any kind of environment. Is it at all possible to have environment reflect but all other reflections off on a particular material?

[Alan Iglesias]

I'm sorry if I have misunderstood you, but are you are trying to reflect just the Environment Map in an object? If so, it's apparently unsupported by the Chaos Group, but this is something I've "gotten away with" in the past when I needed to do this: Use a Standard Material with Max's Raytrace Map, turn off all the raytrace options and load a bitmap in the Map Slot under Background. You will get a reflection of the Environment map in the object, but no other reflections (see attached shot). It worked for me, but as usual, YMMV.

I hope this is of some use to you,

-Alan

[Morbid Angel]

problem with such setup is that vray frame buffer will not output render pass for standard material.

[Morbid Angel]

I take that back...it seems to work. Hm strange I clearly remember vray not supporting max native materials for framebuffer.

[Alan Iglesias]

Hmmm..maybe something's changed in there...

Also, I have at times used a Standard material with the Vray Map to do other reflection-trick stuff...

Glad it worked,

-Alan

[Morbid Angel]

I am trying to mimic reflective occlusion, but no luck I wish vray dirt had that option.