Refraction be excluded from global "Max ray intensity"?

[flat]

Can Refraction Ray be excluded from "Max ray intensity"?

At "Max ray intensity" (default 20), looking at colord bright lights through Refraction glossiness 1.0 and 0.99 materials shows extreme differences in results.

If I disable global "Max ray intensity" or increase the value to a large value (ex:100), I see no difference, but I don't want to increase the "Max ray intensity" to prevent FireFly reflections.

sample scene is attached

[hermit.crab]

I don't think you can, since the parameter is global. What are you trying to achieve? Maybe there is another way of doing it.

[flat]

My question is simple.
Is there a way to keep the default 20 Max ray intensity and not clamp the light intensity via the glossiness 0.99( or less) refracted Ray?
(Without compositing or rendering twice)

Or a feature request to add the "Reflection Ray Only" option to Max ray intensity.

[hermit.crab]

I don't think there is.

[flat]

Very disappointed.
Isn't it the support team that comes up with solutions?
No thought for future improvements?

This question was asked by one of my clients.
I reply that Chaos support team did not offer any solution?

[Buck]

Every little problem can't be solved by ChaosGroup at the drop of a hat. Tell your client you'll figure out something. I'm sure you will

[hermit.crab]

flat I was too laconic with my previous post, excuse me. The difference is only visible because of the Exposure adjustment in the VFB2 (indeed, the pixel values of the glass are different). One way to solve it would be to clamp the image (0-1 values; i.e. through Exponential color mapping), however, this way a lot of information will be lost. Faking it with a second rendering may also work, though you wanted to avoid it.

[flat]

What I wanted was not an immediate solution.
I wanted a comment that the developers are aware that this kind of problem occurs (and will mention it in the Issue Tracker) and that it will be remedied in the future, if possible.

It was not clear from the comments so far if the Chaos developers are aware of this issue.

The worst part is that the issue is forgotten in this thread.

I would reply to my client that there is currently no solution other than 2-pass rendering, but that I expect Chaos developers to find a solution in the future.

If I had the authority to write in the Issue tracker, I would not have had to report it in the forum.

[hermit.crab]

The thing is, there isn't a bug to be logged, and adding a "Refraction Ray only" would require far too many resources for an issue, which can be resolved by other means.