FEATURE REQUEST: Don't compute Irradiance on Matte Objects

[ultrasonic]

Hey,

i am currently working in a car configurator where we make extensive use of matte objects. When rendering an spherical image with 7000x3500 pixels and 100+ renderlayers it is a little waste of time when we always compute the full irradiance map for every renderlayer. We cannot precompute it,because many parts get switched on and off.

In MentalRay they have a feature on their mip_render_subset node called "Full Screen Fg" which is very usefull in such cases, cause it computes FG only on Non-Matte objects. I know it is not 100% correct on the edges,but this is not a problem for us.

Any chance we can get a feature like that?

thx in advance
Oli

[vlado]

You can turn off the "Receive GI" option for these objects in their V-Ray object properties (or the MtlWrapper).

Best regards,
Vlado

[ultrasonic]

this is veeeeeerrryy good news....sorry for my lack of experience in that case
thumbs up
Oli