VRay Light invisible, or not.

[Macker]

I currently have a scene (buildings) that I am trying to illuminate the interiors with vray sphere lights within various rooms, and I have "invisible" checked on all of the lights, however they are still very much visible through the glass.

How would I go about making them invisible? I'm ending up with large glowing spheres in each room!

[Svetlozar Draganov]

Invisible option make the light not visible through camera rays - but the reflections of the light will be visible , so you have to also turn off affect reflection from the light properties.

[Macker]

Presumably that will make the light invisible in all reflections then? It's a shame, because just outside the window it's creating some lovely reflections on some cladding.

[flino2004]

It's not what you asked but depending of the height of the building and if you want nice lighting.... I used before several boxes, after that I attached them ( one object) and apply random material Id by elements.... The material for the object would by a multiobject material with different vraylight mat intensities, colors, on/off, etc.

Fernando

[voltron7]

maybe you could try excluding the window glass from the V-Ray light? (I have not tried that yet.)

[Macker]

It's not what you asked but depending of the height of the building and if you want nice lighting.... I used before several boxes, after that I attached them ( one object) and apply random material Id by elements.... The material for the object would by a multiobject material with different vraylight mat intensities, colors, on/off, etc.

Fernando

It's a good idea, but the building is too small to warrant that, it just wouldn't look right on anything other than a large building/skyscraper.

maybe you could try excluding the window glass from the V-Ray light? (I have not tried that yet.)

Good idea. Will give it a try.