Disabling Beauty pass when rendering other elements?

[Cruz]

Is there a way to render just a certain element on a RenderLayer i.e. Specular w/o calculating the beauty?

workarounds maybe?

maya 2011 vray 2.0 here

[Cruz]

No one?

What I've been doing to get quick ZDepth passes or Object IDs rendered, is assign a black lightmaterial.
Almost renderman speeds on the arbitrary passes this way.

Of course its not possible to render spec, dif, GI, etc passes using this trick

[pechart]

The renderelements are pulled from the beauty, so there's no way to disable the calculation. I suggest detaching any secondaries (as depth, velocity) from the main beauty to a seperate layer.