GeoSphere and GI

[fabrizio]

Hi everybody,
I need to have reflections on the objects and I put a 360° sky on a geosphere. But now GI of skylight doesn't pass through geosphere.
How can I do it?

thanx

fabrizio

[RErender]

If you are using 1.45 just uncheck "visible to GI" in the geosphere's vray properties.

[fabrizio]

I use 1.09

thanx

[Trapezium]

You could stick a camera in the middle of a scene with just the hemisphere and a ground plane. Render out an HDRI with the spherical camera set to 360 FOV.
In your original scene, import the HDRI for the reflect environment and set the hemisphere in your original scene to not visible to reflection and no shadows.

[fabrizio]

Brilliant!!!

thanks a lot

Fabrizio