Controlling reflections

[Bart247]

Is there a way in Maya to set an object to have a light not be visible in it's reflection, but have the light still be visible in the reflection of another object it is reflecting?

By default if I have a plane reflecting a red ball and a light. The red ball is reflecting the plane and light. I want the plane to reflect the red ball and all of it's reflections but to not reflect the light.

[yolov]

You can add VRayObjectProperties to you object and exclude the light by adding it to the reflection exclusion. The list is actually a set, so once you enable it in the object properties, you can open your outliner and middle-mouse drag your light to the set. Of course, you can add any objects to this set, not just lights.

[Bart247]

Sweet!

That makes my life soooooo much easier!

Best Monday morning ever! (...I'm such a nerd)