Multiple Dome Lights in one scene

[lianShu]

Hi everyone,

I was wondering about having multiple dome lights in one maya scene. A client from us wants to have an object in different locations and it would be perfekt for me, if I could do that in a single rendering with different lightselects.
So my thoughts were to have one hdr map for each domelight (-> 3 domelights in the scene). Create a lightselect for each domelight and render it all together. Later in comp I could separate it in the different layer and locations.
Problem that I have, just one domelight is showing up in the lightselect passes. Is there an oppertunity to do that in any way?

Thanks for any suggestions.

[hermit.crab]

It won't work like that. If it's for preview purposes, I guess you could try using ExtraTex passes for the HDRIs. Otherwise, you might need to render multiple times.

[lianShu]

Thank you for your answer.
How exactly do you mean, using Extra Tex passes for the HDRIs? should I create an exclusive set with the objects, I want to render and apply the texture override only to the dome light?

[hermit.crab]

Add an ExtraTex pass and plug the VRayHDRI (mapped as spherical) and it should work without excluding/overrides.

[lianShu]

Ah I see what you mean, ok. Unfortunately I need the behaviour of the shader (reflect / spec...). Is there no other way or work around to do that? We have an huge amount of renderings and it would be great to have a way to render it just once.
Thanks in advance